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How to get Annotations from IField and IMethod? [message #197972]

Tue, 08 March 2005 10:10

Eclipse User

Hi,

is there a way to get Annotations from an IField or IMethod?
Something like the getAnnotations() method of java.lang.reflect.Field?

Greetings,

Jan

Re: How to get Annotations from IField and IMethod? [message #198001 is a reply to message #197972]

Tue, 08 March 2005 12:12

Eclipse User

No, you have to parse the compilation unit of the IMember and then use an
AST visitor

Cheers

Tobias

"Jan "Sch

Re: How to get Annotations from IField and IMethod? [message #198008 is a reply to message #198001]

Tue, 08 March 2005 12:21

Eclipse User

Tobias Widmer wrote:
> No, you have to parse the compilation unit of the IMember and then use an
> AST visitor
But this is incredibly slow, and I need this information all the time. I
believe the IMember interface should directly offer the annotation
information. Is there a reason why this is not provided, or is it just not
implemented yet?

Greetings,

Jan

Re: How to get Annotations from IField and IMethod? [message #198632 is a reply to message #198008]

Tue, 15 March 2005 12:09

Eclipse User

The java model only provides structural information. Annotations are
technically considered as extended modifiers.
By the way, parsing a cu without resolving bindings is amazingly fast, if
you don't need fully resolved type information.

Cheers

Tobias

"Jan "Sch

Re: How to get Annotations from IField and IMethod? [message #198764 is a reply to message #198632]

Wed, 16 March 2005 09:05

Eclipse User

Tobias Widmer wrote:
> The java model only provides structural information. Annotations are
> technically considered as extended modifiers.
Yes. But why is it possible to optain ordinary modifiers, but not the
extended ones?

> By the way, parsing a cu without resolving bindings is amazingly fast, if
> you don't need fully resolved type information.
Nevertheless it is an O(n) operation perhaps with a disk access, where it
could be in O(1).

But thanks for the answer. I perhaps file a feature request.

Greetings,

Jan

Re: How to get Annotations from IField and IMethod? [message #198795 is a reply to message #198764]

Wed, 16 March 2005 10:58

Eclipse User

See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=79112

Markus

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