Improvements to Scannotation
Posted by billburke on January 22, 2008
I made a few little improvements to Scannotation that I needed to have in our JSR-311 implementation:
- CrossRefException is now a checked exception. You should be forced to deal with this exception.
- Configurable ignored packages. You can specify which packages you do not want to scan. Performance tweak.
- Meta-annotations are now cross-referenceable if you invoke the appropriate APIs. What do I mean by this?
Example of cross-referencing meta-annotations:
@HttpMethod("GET")
public @interface GET {}
public class BookStore {
@GET String getBook() {...}
}
BookStore can now be cross-referenced with @HttpMethod if you call the appropriate method on AnnotationDB.
jeff haynie said
scannotation is just what i needed for some stuff i’m trying to do in appcelerator…. plan on pulling it in tonight. thanks!