JAX-RS has an AnnotationUtils class that has other annotational goodies, and there's no annotation code in ReflectionUtil, so I think I'll follow the Alice's Restaurant principle.
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Daniel Kulp <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, December 01, 2011 11:48:45 AM Benson Margulies wrote: >> I'm a bit surprised that org.apache.cxf.jaxrs.utils.AnnotationUtils >> does not have a method that says: >> >> "Here's a method and an annotation. If the method has the annotation, >> return it. Otherwise, go to the containing class, and it's parents, in >> search of it." >> >> Is there something I'm missing which would make this a bad idea? > > Probably something useful to add to ReflectionUtil. > > That said, you should also ask yourself if the annotation itself just have > @Inherited on it and whether that would be enough or not? > > > -- > Daniel Kulp > [email protected] - http://dankulp.com/blog > Talend Community Coder - http://coders.talend.com
