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Find the methods of a particular class matching an annotation

I have two annotations, we'll call them @Foo and @Bar. @Foo is a class (aka type)-level annotation and @Bar is a method-level annotation. My intent is for a given @Foo class, iterate over all the @Bar methods. What is the most appropriate way to do this? I'm using the Google Reflections API for Java, at the moment.

Thanks.

Solution

  • Wero's comment worked: "you can simply use fooClass.getDeclaredMethods() to enumerate the (declared) methods and method.getAnnotation(Bar.class) != null to filter for the bar methods"