org.jboss.solder.reflection
Class AnnotationInstanceProvider

java.lang.Object
  org.jboss.solder.reflection.AnnotationInstanceProvider

public class AnnotationInstanceProvider
extends Object

Provides dynamic annotation creation. If you know the type of the annotation instance to create at development time you should use AnnotationLiteral instead of AnnotationInstanceProvider.

AnnotationInstanceProvider creates a proxy, and will return values as provided when the annotation instance was created. An AnnotationInstanceProvider will cache generated proxy classes.

Author:

Stuart Douglas, Pete Muir

See Also:

AnnotationLiteral

Constructor Summary

AnnotationInstanceProvider()

Method Summary

<T extends Annotation> T

get(Class<T> annotationType, Map<String,?> values) Returns an instance of the given annotation type with attribute values specified in the map.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

AnnotationInstanceProvider

public AnnotationInstanceProvider()

Method Detail

get

public <T extends Annotation> T get(Class<T> annotationType,
                                    Map<String,?> values)

Returns an instance of the given annotation type with attribute values specified in the map.

• For Annotation, array and enum types the values must exactly match the declared return type of the attribute or a ClassCastException will result.
• For character types the the value must be an instance of Character or String.
• Numeric types do not have to match exactly, as they are converted using Number.

If am member does not have a corresponding entry in the value map then the annotations default value will be used.

If the annotation member does not have a default value then a NullMemberException will be thrown

Parameters:

annotationType - the type of the annotation instance to generate

values - the attribute values of this annotation