Re: [ajdt-dev] Getting annotations from AdviceElement

["André Restivo" <arestivo@xxxxxxxx>]

Thank you both for your quick answers.  I will try to detail my problem a little bit more:

I'm implementing a IncrementalBuilder and every time a Resource is visited I want to get the Annotations from both methods and advices (not pointcuts). When a resource is a java class I can get annotations from its methods just fine with:

>         ICompilationUnit cu = 
>              (ICompilationUnit) JavaCore.create(resource);
>         IType[] types = cu.getTypes();
>         for (IType type : types) {
>                 IMethod[] methods = type.getMethods();
>                 for (IMethod method : methods) {
>                       IAnnotation[] annotations = 
>                               method.getAnnotations();
>                       (....)
>                 }
>         }

But when I try something similar for Aspects like this:

>         IFile file = (IFile) resource;
>         ICompilationUnit cu = AJCompilationUnitManager.INSTANCE.getAJCompilationUnit(file);
>         ICompilationUnit mappedUnit = AJCompilationUnitManager.mapToAJCompilationUnit(cu);
>         if (mappedUnit instanceof AJCompilationUnit) {
>             AJCompilationUnit ajUnit = 
>                  (AJCompilationUnit) mappedUnit;
>             for (IType type : ajUnit.getAllTypes()){
>                 if (type instanceof AspectElement) {
>                     AspectElement aspect = (AspectElement) type;
>                     AdviceElement[] advices = aspect.getAdvice();
>                     for (int i = 0; i < advices.length; i++) 
>                            IAnnotation[] annotations = advices[i].getAnnotations();
>                            (....)
>                     }
>                 }
>              }
>         }

I always get an empty array. My alternative right now is to use advice.getSource() and extract the annotations with regular expressions but this is a path a didn't want to take.

I'm using AJDT 1.6.0 btw.

Thanks Again,

André