Thanks for the reply, I actually was able to do what I needed with a 
subscriber listening to the LoadClassMetadataEvent.

On Saturday, September 19, 2015 at 5:33:39 AM UTC-4, Marco Pivetta wrote:
>
> Hey James,
>
> You will have to use a custom annotation reader for this.
> Annotations are just metadata attached to a property, but they are not 
> aware of the context they are placed in.
>
> Wherever you want an annotation for a property, you need an instance of 
> the ReflectionProperty anyway, so the two are very accessible from a 
> context where you'd read the annotation from the AnnotationReader.
>
>
> Marco Pivetta 
>
> http://twitter.com/Ocramius      
>
> http://ocramius.github.com/
>
> On 17 September 2015 at 04:35, James Murray <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> simple question:
>>
>> I'm making some custom annotations that needs to have access to the 
>> field(property) name that the annotation is used on.
>>
>> Is there a way to retrieve the field/property name in my annotation class?
>>
>> for instance 
>> class myAwesomeEntity {
>>     /**
>>      * @column(name="some_db_field")
>>      * @myCustomAnnotation()
>>     private $someDBField;
>> }
>>
>> now in my annotation:
>> class MyCustomAnnotation
>> {
>>     public $fieldName;
>>
>>     public function __construct()
>>     {
>>         $this->fieldName = /*???*/
>>     }
>> }
>>
>> when I read/use my property annotation I'd like to have the $fieldName 
>> property hydrated with the name of the property that's using the annotation 
>> so in this case:
>>
>> echo $myCustomAnnotation->fieldNam; //someDBField -or- some_db_field
>>
>>
>> OR I have to set this when I'm actually reading the annotation instead of 
>> being able to gather the property metadata inside the annotation?
>>
>> Thanks for the help
>>
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