RFR: 8173056: Add test that captures current behavior of annotations with invalid annotation types

[Peter Levart]

Hi,

On 01/19/2017 04:58 PM, Peter Levart wrote:
> I extended the AnnotationVerifier test with additional cases that 
> cover various "wrongs" in annotation types:
>
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~plevart/jdk9-dev/8173056_AnnotationVerifier/webrev.01/ 


My plan is to 1st get this test in as a separate patch for the following 
issue:

     https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8173056

..., so I would kindly ask for a review. This test will make any 
possible further refactorings in annotation handling code less risky as 
the exceptional behavior will be tracked by this test.

After the test is in, I will prepare a variant of fix for:

     https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8029019

... that doesn't change current exceptional behavior for invalid 
annotation types or just changes it slightly to fix obvious conformance 
bugs like the following:

     https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8169629

What behavior will or will not be changed will be directly visible from 
the changes required to this test.


Regards, Peter