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To avoid cluttering an ajava file, whole-program inference does not print the invisible qualifiers. It suppressed them by overriding the pretty-printer's three `visit(...AnnotationExpr)` methods to return without printing. By the time the pretty-printer visits an annotation, it has already printed the whitespace that separates the annotation from what follows it, so each suppressed annotation leaves a stray space or blank line: `java.util. Date`, `static double`, `String [] []`. That partly defeats the purpose of not printing the annotation, which is to reduce clutter. Instead, remove the annotations that should not be printed from a clone of the compilation unit, and print that. The pretty-printer then outputs no separator for them. The clone is necessary because the removal is a side effect, and the AST is printed once per checker that was run. No test output changes: the test checkers declare no invisible qualifier, so nothing is removed in the test suite. This refactoring is worthwhile on its own for the stray whitespace it fixes for a checker that does declare one, and it is a prerequisite for omitting irrelevant annotations, which would otherwise leave the same stray whitespace on every annotation it omits. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When a checker declares `@RelevantJavaTypes`, whole-program inference could write, into an `.ajava` file, an annotation on a Java type that the checker treats as irrelevant. Such an annotation is clutter: omitting it does not change the result of type-checking. Omit such an annotation when writing the `.ajava` file. The test is conservative: it discards an annotation only when the annotation is definitely irrelevant where it appears. Relevance constrains the Java types on which a qualifier may be *written*, so it says nothing about a declaration annotation, even one that is also a type qualifier. JavaParser attaches an annotation that precedes a declaration's type to the declaration rather than to the type, so the two cases cannot be told apart from the AST alone. Mark each annotation that inference adds as a declaration annotation with a JavaParser `DataKey`, and always retain it. Update the `ainfer-relevance` goal files and the test inputs' comments, which previously recorded the old behavior. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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When the checker supports no invisible qualifier, `removeUnprintedAnnotations` has no effect, so skip both it and the clone that it requires. Also, walk the AST rather than building a list of every node in it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ork-fork-mernst-branch-ajava-remove-annotations-from-ast into ajava-omit-irrelevant # Conflicts: # framework/src/main/java/org/checkerframework/common/wholeprograminference/WholeProgramInferenceJavaParserStorage.java
Their computation is reflective, and they do not change over the lifetime of a `WholeProgramInferenceJavaParserStorage`. The computation is lazy rather than in the constructor, because `getSupportedTypeQualifiers()` might not yet yield its final result when the storage is constructed. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* Skip cloning and walking the AST when no annotation can be removed. * Don't crash if a declaration has no variables; be conservative instead. * Fix comments about where an annotation on a type parameter declaration lands. * Narrow a @SuppressWarnings from a method to a single expression. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Also correct the comment about why the compilation unit must be cloned. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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When a checker declares
@RelevantJavaTypes, whole-program inference could write, into an.ajavafile, an annotation on a Java type that the checker treats as irrelevant. Such an annotation is clutter: omitting it does not change the result of type-checking.Omit such an annotation when writing the
.ajavafile. The test is conservative: it discards an annotation only when the annotation is definitely irrelevant where it appears.Relevance constrains the Java types on which a qualifier may be written, so it says nothing about a declaration annotation, even one that is also a type qualifier. JavaParser attaches an annotation that precedes a declaration's type to the declaration rather than to the type, so the two cases cannot be told apart from the AST alone. Each annotation that inference adds as a declaration annotation is marked with a JavaParser
DataKeyand always retained.Updates the
ainfer-relevancegoal files and the test inputs' comments, which recorded the old behavior.🤖 Generated with Claude Code