Spring custom annotation: how to inherit attributes?

Question

I am creating my own custom shortcut annotation, as described in Spring Documentation:

@Target({ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.TYPE})
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Transactional(value = "Custom", readOnly = true)
public @interface CustomTransactional {
}

Is it possible, that with my custom annotation I could be also able to set any other attributes, which are available in @Transactional? I would like to able use my annotation, for example, like this:

@CustomTransactional(propagation = Propagation.REQUIRED)
public class MyClass {

}

Answer 1

No, that will not work, if you want additional attributes that will have to be set on your custom annotation itself this way:

@Target({ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.TYPE})
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Transactional(value = "Custom", readOnly = true, propagation = Propagation.REQUIRED)
public @interface CustomTransactional {
}

A solution (bad one :-) ) could be to define multiple annotations with the base set of cases that you see for your scenario:

@Target({ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.TYPE})
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Transactional(value = "Custom", readOnly = true, propagation = Propagation.REQUIRED)
public @interface CustomTransactionalWithRequired {
}

@Target({ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.TYPE})
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Transactional(value = "Custom", readOnly = true, propagation = Propagation.SUPPORTED)
public @interface CustomTransactionalWithSupported {
}