Using the Assembler on classes annotated with annotations (that are annotated with RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) strips it

[mdo992]

I have a class that looks like this:

@TestAnnotation(
    test1 = "a",
    test2 = "a test",
    test3 = "a real test"
)
public class TestClass {
}

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
public @interface TestAnnotation {
    String test1();

    String test2();

    String test3();
}

I decompile jar, open it in Recaf's assembler and save the bytecode without modifying anything. Closing the assembler and opening the class in the assembler again changes the bytecode and the annotation gets stripped:

[Col-E]

@Nowilltolife This is fixed on dev3 right?

[jumanji144]

i do not see a reason why it should strip them, newest dev3 parses all annotations

[mdo992]

I believe I was testing on 3.0.0, i’ll try the latest commit and let you know how it goes later.

[mdo992]

This appears to be fixed on the latest commit but it also changes the order here, if that mattered: