How to get compiler errors

[peterkronenberg]

Hi,
I'm new to Javassist. Just started playing with it the other day.
When I use CtNewMethod.make() or any other method that takes source code, is there any way to display the compiler errors that are being generated? I'm just getting a "CannotCompileException: [source error] syntax error"
Is there any way to get more detail?

thanks
Peter

[chiba]

No, there is no way since Javassist uses its own small
(quick) compiler. It is not supposed to be used as a
regular compiler.

[peterkronenberg]

I understand that it's not a full-fledged compiler, but how do you normally suggest people do their development? Perhaps we need an option to dump the generated class in text format to a .java file, so we can compile it normally, for those hard-to-find bugs.

[chiba]

I agree that we need better help.
However, dumping a generated class in text format
is not a simple thing since *true* bytecode decompilation
is hard work.

By the way, have you checked the compiler-limitations
page of the Javassist tutorial?