Java Coding Problems

Inspecting annotations of the thrown exceptions

For inspecting the annotations of the thrown exceptions, we need to call the getAnnotatedExceptionTypes() method:

This method returns the thrown exceptions types included those that are annotated:

Class<Melon> clazz = Melon.class;Method methodEat = clazz.getDeclaredMethod("eat");AnnotatedType[] exceptionsTypes   = methodEat.getAnnotatedExceptionTypes();

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

[@modern.challenge.Runtime() java.lang.IllegalStateException]

Extracting the first exception type can be accomplished as follows:

// class java.lang.IllegalStateException ...