From crazyboblee on March 07, 2007 08:33:34

We could write an APT processor to generate implementations of all annotations
annotated with @BindingAnnotation at compile time.

From crazyboblee on March 07, 2007 18:48:16

Here's another generic method we could consider. It works if you know the attribute
values at compile time.

Example usage:

  @Named("Bob")
  static Named bob = bindingAnnotationOn("bob");

The library method:

  public static <A extends Annotation> A bindingAnnotationOn(String fieldName) {
    try {
      StackTraceElement element = new Throwable().getStackTrace()[1];
      Class<?> declaringClass =
          Class.forName(element.getClassName());
      Field field = declaringClass.getDeclaredField(fieldName);
      for (Annotation annotation : field.getAnnotations()) {
        if (annotation.annotationType().isAnnotationPresent(
            BindingAnnotation.class)) {
          return (A) field.getType().cast(annotation);
        }
      }
      throw new RuntimeException("No binding annotation is present.");
    }
    catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
      throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
    catch (NoSuchFieldException e) {
      throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
  }

I wish Java provided some language level meta programming support. It would be cool
if you could just write:

  @Named("Bob")
  static Named bob = &bob.getAnnotation(&bob.getType());

From limpbizkit on March 07, 2007 21:57:15

Yeah, it's kinda sad that we can do this:
   Class<Foo> fooClass = Foo.class
...but not these:
   Method<Bar> getBarMethod = Foo#bar();
   Field<Bar> barField = Foo#bar;

From kevinb9n on March 19, 2007 11:23:22

we should also simplify what's in the user's guide right away; they should not have
to implement their Annotation interface themselves.

Owner: kevinb9n
Labels: 1.1

From kevinb9n on April 29, 2007 11:41:45

this is less important since we're supporting @Provides tag on methods ( issue 83 ).
So I'm untagging for 1.1.

Labels: -1.1

From kevinb9n on June 03, 2007 11:30:49

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Status: WontFix