Author: simonetripodi
Date: Sun Feb 13 01:35:02 2011
New Revision: 1070175
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1070175&view=rev
Log:
added an utility method to extract the pattern() property from a digester
annotation
Modified:
commons/sandbox/digester3/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/digester3/annotations/utils/Annotations.java
Modified:
commons/sandbox/digester3/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/digester3/annotations/utils/Annotations.java
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/commons/sandbox/digester3/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/digester3/annotations/utils/Annotations.java?rev=1070175&r1=1070174&r2=1070175&view=diff
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---
commons/sandbox/digester3/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/digester3/annotations/utils/Annotations.java
(original)
+++
commons/sandbox/digester3/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/digester3/annotations/utils/Annotations.java
Sun Feb 13 01:35:02 2011
@@ -32,6 +32,11 @@ public class Annotations {
private static final String VALUE = "value";
/**
+ * The {@code pattern} string constant.
+ */
+ private static final String PATTERN = "pattern";
+
+ /**
* This class can't be instantiated.
*/
private Annotations() {
@@ -49,6 +54,20 @@ public class Annotations {
}
/**
+ * Extract the {@code pattern()} from annotation.
+ *
+ * @param annotation the annotation has to be introspected.
+ * @return the annotation {@code pattern()}.
+ */
+ public static String getAnnotationPattern(Annotation annotation) {
+ Object ret = invokeAnnotationMethod(annotation, PATTERN);
+ if (ret != null) {
+ return (String) ret;
+ }
+ return null;
+ }
+
+ /**
* Extract the Annotations array {@code value()} from annotation if
present,
* nul otherwise.
*
