Description Marko Umek 2010-09-13 05:33:33 EDT

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For example: I'd like to select all methods which are marked by a Annotation which are itself have a been annotated by a specific (meta) annotation type.

Example: I've a meta annotation like SeverityLevelAnnotation and some Annotation which are using SeverityLevelAnnotation (it's somehow a kind of annotation derivation). All methods which are marked with @Warning (see below) , @Info, ... should be selected, without explicit naming these "derived" annotations.

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(ElementType.METHOD)
@Documented
@SeverityLevelAnnotation(text = SeverityLevels.WARNING_TEXT, severityLevel = SeverityLevels.WARNING, filterLevel = FilterLevel.WARNING)
public @interface Warning {
	String value() default "";
}

The proposed pointcut definition could be like this:

pointcut allSeverityLevels() : execution(* *.*(..)) && @annotation(SeverityLevelAnnotation+);

or

pointcut allSeverityLevels(SeverityLevelAnnotation+ sevrityLevel) : execution(* *.*(..)) && @annotation(sevrityLevel);



Reproducible: Always