Java Coding Problems

Inspecting methods annotations

Let's inspect the @Ripe annotation of the eat() method from the Melon class:

First, let's fetch all the declared annotations, and afterward, let's resume to @Ripe:

Class<Melon> clazz = Melon.class;Method methodEat = clazz.getDeclaredMethod("eat");Annotation[] methodAnnotations = methodEat.getDeclaredAnnotations();

The returned array printed via Arrays.toString() reveals a single result:

[@modern.challenge.Ripe(value=true)]

And let's cast methodAnnotations[0] to Ripe:

Ripe ripeAnnotation = (Ripe) methodAnnotations[0];System.out.println("@Ripe value: " + ripeAnnotation.value());

Or we can use the getDeclaredAnnotation() ...