warning on JPA annotations applied to fields

What I thought we had decided was that when you have a Java annotation of a Ceylon attribute, then the annotation always gets applied to the field, eliminating any ambiguity that it might be applied to the getter.

And in fact, this is what seems to actually happen. (Phew! I was really worried for a sec.) But I still get a warning from the Java backend:

Ambiguous annotation target: generatedValue could be applied to several targets, use one of generatedValue__FIELD, generatedValue__GETTER to disambiguate

That warning should be removed, I believe.

WDYT, @tombentley ?

[gavinking]

I just tried @DiegoCoronel’s example Swarm app, and I found that when I used inject instead of inject__FIELD, I still get these useless warnings.

source/jaxrs/example/provider/PersistenceProvider.ceylon:15: warning: ambiguous annotation target: persistenceContext could be applied to several targets, use one of persistenceContext__FIELD, persistenceContext__GETTER, persistenceContext__SETTER to disambiguate
        persistenceContext
        ^
source/jaxrs/example/resource/EmployeeResource.ceylon:37: warning: ambiguous annotation target: inject could be applied to several targets, use one of inject__FIELD, inject__GETTER, inject__SETTER to disambiguate
        inject
        ^
source/jaxrs/example/resource/EmployeeResource.ceylon:40: warning: ambiguous annotation target: inject could be applied to several targets, use one of inject__FIELD, inject__GETTER, inject__SETTER to disambiguate
        inject
        ^
4 warnings

I seriously do not know what the purpose of this is supposed to be. If I have:

shared class EmployeeResource() {

    inject
    late EntityManager entityManager;

    inject
    late EmployeeService service;

        ...

}

Seriously what do I care if the @Inject annotation gets applied to the field or to the getter? It’s not even confusing to Java folks, since the declaration actually looks like a Java field!

[FroMage]

So nobody’s going to pick up on what I said about not needing late for primitives and optionals?