Byte Buddy Nested Annotations - byte-buddy

Question

I would like to use Byte-Buddy to generate annotations and I am able to accomplish this for simple annotations. What is the correct Byte-Buddy syntax to generate nested annotations?
For example I would like to generate the following annotation #MessageDriven which contains nested annotations:
#MessageDriven(
activationConfig={
#ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName="destination", propertyValue="remoteBidsWantedJMS/TOPIC.BIDSWANTED.QUOTEWANTEDSEVENT"),
#ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName="providerAdapterJNDI", propertyValue="java:/RemoteBidsWantedJMSProvider"),
#ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName="reconnectAttempts", propertyValue="60"),
#ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName="reconnectInterval", propertyValue="10"),
#ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName="acknowledgeMode", propertyValue="Auto-acknowledge"),
#ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName="destinationType", propertyValue="javax.jms.Topic"),
#ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName="subscriptionDurability", propertyValue="NonDurable"),
#ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName="maxSession", propertyValue="1")
})
What is wrong with my current syntax?
DynamicType.Unloaded dynamicTypeBuilder2 = new ByteBuddy()
.redefine(QuoteWantedsEventProcessorBean.class)
.name("com.tmcbonds.messaging.QuoteWantedsEventProcessorBean_BYTEBUDDY_REDEFINE_" + i)
.annotateType(AnnotationDescription.Builder.ofType(Pool.class)
.define("value", "TESTVALUE")
.build())
.annotateType(AnnotationDescription.Builder.ofType(MessageDriven.class)
.defineTypeArray("activationConfig", ActivationConfigProperty.class)
.define("propertyName", "destination")
.define("propertyValue", "remoteBidsWantedJMS/TOPIC.BIDSWANTED.QUOTEWANTEDSEVENT")
.build())
.make();
Exception is this:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: [interface javax.ejb.ActivationConfigProperty] cannot be assigned to activationConfig
at net.bytebuddy.description.annotation.AnnotationDescription$Builder.define(AnnotationDescription.java:852)
at net.bytebuddy.description.annotation.AnnotationDescription$Builder.defineTypeArray(AnnotationDescription.java:1041)
at net.bytebuddy.description.annotation.AnnotationDescription$Builder.defineTypeArray(AnnotationDescription.java:1029)
Thanks!

Answer 1

I was able to figure out the correct syntax to create the class file with the nested annotations:
Unloaded<QuoteWantedsEventProcessorBean> dynamicTypeBuilder = new ByteBuddy()
.redefine(QuoteWantedsEventProcessorBean.class)
.name("com.tmcbonds.messaging.QuoteWantedsEventProcessorBean_BYTEBUDDY_REDEFINE_" + i)
.annotateType(AnnotationDescription.Builder.ofType(MessageDriven.class)
.defineAnnotationArray(
"activationConfig",
new TypeDescription.ForLoadedType(ActivationConfigProperty.class),
AnnotationDescription.Builder.ofType(ActivationConfigProperty.class)
.define("propertyName", "messageSelector")
.define("propertyValue", "" + i)
.build(),
AnnotationDescription.Builder.ofType(ActivationConfigProperty.class)
.define("propertyName", "destination")
.define("propertyValue", "remoteBidsWantedJMS/TOPIC.BIDSWANTED.QUOTEWANTEDSEVENT")
.build(),
AnnotationDescription.Builder.ofType(ActivationConfigProperty.class)
.define("propertyName", "providerAdapterJNDI")
.define("propertyValue", "java:/RemoteBidsWantedJMSProvider")
.build(),
AnnotationDescription.Builder.ofType(ActivationConfigProperty.class)
.define("propertyName", "reconnectAttempts")
.define("propertyValue", "60")
.build(),
AnnotationDescription.Builder.ofType(ActivationConfigProperty.class)
.define("propertyName", "reconnectInterval")
.define("propertyValue", "10")
.build(),
AnnotationDescription.Builder.ofType(ActivationConfigProperty.class)
.define("propertyName", "acknowledgeMode")
.define("propertyValue", "Auto-acknowledge")
.build(),
AnnotationDescription.Builder.ofType(ActivationConfigProperty.class)
.define("propertyName", "destinationType")
.define("propertyValue", "javax.jms.Topic")
.build(),
AnnotationDescription.Builder.ofType(ActivationConfigProperty.class)
.define("propertyName", "subscriptionDurability")
.define("propertyValue", "NonDurable")
.build(),
AnnotationDescription.Builder.ofType(ActivationConfigProperty.class)
.define("propertyName", "maxSession")
.define("propertyValue", "1")
.build()
)
.build())
.make();
Which generates the following in the class file:
#MessageDriven(description = "", activationConfig = {
#ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "messageSelector", propertyValue = "0"),
#ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "destination", propertyValue = "remoteBidsWantedJMS/TOPIC.BIDSWANTED.QUOTEWANTEDSEVENT"),
#ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "providerAdapterJNDI", propertyValue = "java:/RemoteBidsWantedJMSProvider"),
#ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "reconnectAttempts", propertyValue = "60"),
#ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "reconnectInterval", propertyValue = "10"),
#ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "acknowledgeMode", propertyValue = "Auto-acknowledge"),
#ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "destinationType", propertyValue = "javax.jms.Topic"),
#ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "subscriptionDurability", propertyValue = "NonDurable"),
#ActivationConfigProperty(propertyName = "maxSession", propertyValue = "1") }, mappedName = "", messageListenerInterface = Object.class, name = "")