We now consider property annotations as merged annotations when initially scanning for annotations in a property declaration. Composed annotations such as declared outside our code are captured correctly because they use an own type that is not queried by users of PersistentProperty. Own, revised annotations, using @AliasFor providing an alias for annotation values require merged annotation processing.
Previously, annotations were cached as-is without resolving @AliasFor. This caused a later lookup via findAnnotation(…) to return the cached annotation without aliasing. Because the annotation was cached, no further lookup via AnnotatedElementUtils.findMergedAnnotation(…) was attempted.
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(value = { FIELD, METHOD })
public @interface RevisedAnnnotationWithAliasFor {
@AliasFor("value")
String name() default "";
@AliasFor("name")
String value() default "";
}
public class Person {
@RevisedAnnnotationWithAliasFor(value = "spring")
String firstname;
}
PersistentProperty firstname = …
property.findAnnotation(…) returned previously @RevisedAnnnotationWithAliasFor(value = "spring", name = "")
now we return @RevisedAnnnotationWithAliasFor(value = "spring", name = "spring")
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