original report 26 July 2006 by Ruimo Uno (Shisei Hanai)

Hi,

The DumbMethods detector in FIndBugs-1.0.0 reports the DMI_ANNOTATION_IS_NOT_VISIBLE_TO_REFLECTION against the following code:

Method m = String.class.getMethod("getBytes", new Class[] {int.class, int.class, byte[].class, int.class}); if (m.isAnnotationPresent(Deprecated.class)) {

Since the retention policy of the @Deprecated is the RUNTIME, this is a false positive. It seems that the DumbMethods uses a retention class database that is set by the visitAnnotation(). As a result, FindBugs can report correctly only for visited annotation classes and other classes are wrongly reported as bugs. Is this as designed?

fix checked into cvs 27 July 2006