Re: [hibernate-dev] hiberate-commons-annotations and locating annotations
org.hibernate.annotations.common.reflection.XAnnotatedElement
On Tue 03 Sep 2013 05:22:22 PM CDT, Steve Ebersole wrote:
After looking through this some more, I think what you say could
almost work. But:
1) Still need a way to determine the declarer of a property rather
than just blindly accepting XProperty.getAnnotation(Convert.class).
This is needed for the Super/Sub MappedSuperclass/Entity case in my
initial email to properly interpret Convert precedence. Is the best
option here a change to hibernate-commons-annotations, and if so what
change specifically? Adding `XClass XProperty#getDeclarer()`?
As an alternative to `XClass XProperty#getDeclarer()` for this
particular use case, I could also see having XAnnotatedElement (and
therefore AnnotationReader) more closely mimic
java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedElement in terms of exposed API.
Especially, here, addition of a getDeclaredAnnotations() method (and
I'd also argue for a getDeclaredAnnotation(Class<T> annotationType)
method).