Question

It seems that the java code generator framework CodeModel is not capable of creating annotations which only contain an enum value without a name – unfortunately a very common pattern (which JPA uses, for example):

  @Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
  private Date createDate;

The API documentation only states “TODO How to add enums to the annotations”

Question:
Is there any way of working around this limitation?

Answer 1

Annotation parameters “without a name” are actually just a shorthand for a default parameter named “value”, so these are equivalent:

@Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)

@Temporal(value=TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)