Enum MergedAnnotations.SearchStrategy

Enum Constant Detail

• DIRECT

  public static final MergedAnnotations.SearchStrategy DIRECT

  Find only directly declared annotations, without considering @Inherited annotations and without searching superclasses or implemented interfaces.

• INHERITED_ANNOTATIONS

  public static final MergedAnnotations.SearchStrategy INHERITED_ANNOTATIONS

  Find all directly declared annotations as well as any @Inherited superclass annotations. This strategy is only really useful when used with Class types since the @Inherited annotation is ignored for all other annotated elements. This strategy does not search implemented interfaces.

• SUPERCLASS

  public static final MergedAnnotations.SearchStrategy SUPERCLASS

  Find all directly declared and superclass annotations. This strategy is similar to INHERITED_ANNOTATIONS except the annotations do not need to be meta-annotated with @Inherited. This strategy does not search implemented interfaces.

• TYPE_HIERARCHY

  public static final MergedAnnotations.SearchStrategy TYPE_HIERARCHY

  Perform a full search of the entire type hierarchy, including superclasses and implemented interfaces. Superclass annotations do not need to be meta-annotated with @Inherited.

• TYPE_HIERARCHY_AND_ENCLOSING_CLASSES

  public static final MergedAnnotations.SearchStrategy TYPE_HIERARCHY_AND_ENCLOSING_CLASSES

  Perform a full search of the entire type hierarchy on the source and any enclosing classes. This strategy is similar to TYPE_HIERARCHY except that enclosing classes are also searched. Superclass annotations do not need to be meta-annotated with @Inherited. When searching a Method source, this strategy is identical to TYPE_HIERARCHY.

Method Detail

• values

  public static MergedAnnotations.SearchStrategy[] values()

  Returns an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared. This method may be used to iterate over the constants as follows:

  for (MergedAnnotations.SearchStrategy c : MergedAnnotations.SearchStrategy.values())
      System.out.println(c);
  

  Returns:

  an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared

• valueOf

  public static MergedAnnotations.SearchStrategy valueOf​(String name)

  Returns the enum constant of this type with the specified name. The string must match exactly an identifier used to declare an enum constant in this type. (Extraneous whitespace characters are not permitted.)

  Parameters:

  name - the name of the enum constant to be returned.

  Returns:

  the enum constant with the specified name

  Throws:

  IllegalArgumentException - if this enum type has no constant with the specified name

  NullPointerException - if the argument is null