Java Reflection Annotation getAnnotation(final Class annotationClass, final AnnotatedElement... elements)

Description

Returns the first element which has an annotation of the given type declared.

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static <ANNOTATION extends Annotation> ANNOTATION getAnnotation(final Class<ANNOTATION> annotationClass,
        final AnnotatedElement... elements) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2010-2015 BSI Business Systems Integration AG.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:/* w ww. jav a2  s. c o  m*/
 *     BSI Business Systems Integration AG - initial API and implementation
 ******************************************************************************/

import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
import java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedElement;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Returns the first element which has an annotation of the given type declared.
     */
    public static <ANNOTATION extends Annotation> ANNOTATION getAnnotation(final Class<ANNOTATION> annotationClass,
            final AnnotatedElement... elements) {
        for (final AnnotatedElement element : elements) {
            final ANNOTATION annotation = element.getAnnotation(annotationClass);
            if (annotation != null) {
                return annotation;
            }
        }
        return null;
    }
}

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