Name: viR10068 Date: 01/26/2004


The metadata-public-draft.html says for the methods Method.getDeclaredAnnotations():
"Returns all annotations that are directly present on this element.
Unlike the other methods in this interface, this method ignores
inherited annotations."
and for the meta-attribute Inherited:
"Note that this meta-annotation type has no effect if the annotated
type is used to annotate anything other than a class or instance method
declaration."
 
So the method Method.getAnnotations() should not ingnore inherited annotations.
But jdk1.5.0-b35 ignores inherited annotations for methods.

Affected test is:
api/java_lang/reflect/AccessibleObject/index.html#getAnnotations[getAnnotations0006]

Simplified version of the test:
--------------------------- B2.java -----------------------------------
import java.io.PrintStream;

import java.lang.annotation.Inherited;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;

@Inherited @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) @interface testInter1 {
    String str_value();
}
@Inherited @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) @interface testInter2 {
    String str_value();
}

class annotElem0001 {
    @testInter1(str_value = "m1") void m() {};
}

class B2 extends annotElem0001 {

    @testInter2(str_value = "m2") void m() {};

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        try {
            System.out.println("length = '" +
B2.class.getDeclaredMethod("m").getAnnotations().length + "' " +
B2.class.getDeclaredMethod("m").getAnnotations()[0] );
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.out.println("Unexpected result " + e);
        }
    }
}
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Execution log:
% jdk1.5.0-b35/solaris-sparc/bin/javac -version -source 1.5 -target 1.5 B2.java &&
jdk1.5.0-b35/solaris-sparc/bin/java -Xfuture B2
javac 1.5.0-beta2
length = '1' @testInter2(str_value=m2)
%

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