[Fixes #1656] Lombok would silently do the wrong thing when using references to `public static final String` fields, instead of actual string literals, there where you can specify strings in lombok annotation parameters, such as `@ToString(of = MyClass.CONSTANT_FIELD)`. We can’t really fix it, but at least now lombok will error when you do that and describe in detail what’s going wrong.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/core/lombok/javac/handlers/JavacHandlerUtil.java b/src/core/lombok/javac/handlers/JavacHandlerUtil.java
index fda1a5d2..1976548c 100644
--- a/src/core/lombok/javac/handlers/JavacHandlerUtil.java
+++ b/src/core/lombok/javac/handlers/JavacHandlerUtil.java
@@ -360,7 +360,10 @@ public class JavacHandlerUtil {
 					expressions.add(inner);
 					if (inner instanceof JCAnnotation) {
 						try {
-							guesses.add(createAnnotation((Class<A>) Class.forName(inner.type.toString()), (JCAnnotation) inner, node));
+							@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
+							Class<A> innerClass = (Class<A>) Class.forName(inner.type.toString());
+							
+							guesses.add(createAnnotation(innerClass, (JCAnnotation) inner, node));
 						} catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) {
 							throw new IllegalStateException(ex);
 						}