Re: Multiple Annotations of the same type?
zakmck73@yahoo.it wrote:
Hi all,
I have a question about Java annotations. I find weird I cannot
annotate something multiple times using the same annotation type. For
instance I cannot do this:
@TODO ( type = "urgent", "Fix the bugs!" )
@TODO ( type = "low priority", "Check the comments" )
public class Foo
{
...
}
AFAIK, there is no technical reason why that cannot be true.
I wish that on the reflection side I had something like
getAnnotationsByType ( Class clazz ).
You have getAnnotation(Class<T> annotationType) [see below]
Any chance things will be improved in future?
There's a chance; I don't think it's high on anyone's list of things to
do, though.
> Does anyone know a workaround?
When I ran into this problem, I created a new supra-annotation:
public @interface Option {
[...]
}
public @interface Options {
Option[] annotations();
}
And used at as such:
@Options({
@Option( [...] ),
@Option( [...] )
})
public class Foobar {
[ ... ]
}
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