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AnnotationMirror.javaAPI DocJava SE 6 API1824Tue Jun 10 00:26:10 BST 2008javax.lang.model.element

AnnotationMirror

public interface AnnotationMirror
Represents an annotation. An annotation associates a value with each element of an annotation type.

Annotations should be compared using the {@code equals} method. There is no guarantee that any particular annotation will always be represented by the same object.

author
Joseph D. Darcy
author
Scott Seligman
author
Peter von der Ahé
version
1.4 06/07/11
since
1.6

Fields Summary
Constructors Summary
Methods Summary
public javax.lang.model.type.DeclaredTypegetAnnotationType()
Returns the type of this annotation.

return
the type of this annotation

public java.util.MapgetElementValues()
Returns the values of this annotation's elements. This is returned in the form of a map that associates elements with their corresponding values. Only those elements with values explicitly present in the annotation are included, not those that are implicitly assuming their default values. The order of the map matches the order in which the values appear in the annotation's source.

Note that an annotation mirror of a marker annotation type will by definition have an empty map.

To fill in default values, use {@link javax.lang.model.util.Elements#getElementValuesWithDefaults getElementValuesWithDefaults}.

return
the values of this annotation's elements, or an empty map if there are none