Spoon doesn't support generating local classes within methods

[lukemerrick]

Although it's not usually best practice to do so, it is legal in Java to declare a class InnerClass as such:

class MainClass {
    public foo () {
        class InnerClass {}
        // method body that initializes and uses objects of type InnerClass
    }
}

However, when generating a CtClass object via the Core() factory, the type seems to default to MainClass.InnerClass which is incorrect if InnerClass is inserted into the method foo. The create method of the Class() factory (meant to create inner classes) also requires a declaring class and thus also only seems to support code of the structure:

class MainClass {
    class InnerClass {}
    public foo () {
        // method body
    }
}

[tdurieux]

It's related to #776.
Unfortunatelly, we don't yet a valid solution for this issue

[monperrus]

One possible solution is to prefix the internal class name by a digit. Does this work?

[monperrus]

by the way, should you find a fix for this problem, a pull request would be welcome

[monperrus]

closing this one, #776 is the reference issue.