Annotations question

[Matthew Givney]

Greetings,

I was doing some googling to find the answer but the docs on annotation processing with examples are pretty sparse.

My question is, does a method annotation have access to the parameters passed into the method? For example, given the example below, does the Greet annotation have access to the yourName parameter? I know I can do this with AOP, but how about annotations?

public @interface Greet{ }
 
@Greet
public void sayHello(String yourName){}

Thanks in advance:

[Gregg Bolinger]

No, nor should you want annotations to have such information. That isn't their intended use. What you can do is find all methods marked with @Greet using the Reflection API and then examine the parameters that way.