AnnotatedTypeMetadata has various methods for finding annotations;
however, prior to this commit it did not provide explicit support for
repeatable annotations.
Although it is possible to craft a search "query" for repeatable
annotations using the MergedAnnotations API via getAnnotations(), that
requires intimate knowledge of the MergedAnnotations API as well as the
structure of repeatable annotations.
Furthermore, the bugs reported in gh-30941 result from the fact that
AnnotationConfigUtils attempts to use the existing functionality in
AnnotatedTypeMetadata to find repeatable annotations without success.
This commit introduces a getMergedRepeatableAnnotationAttributes()
method in AnnotatedTypeMetadata that provides dedicated support for
finding merged repeatable annotation attributes with full @AliasFor
semantics.
Closes gh-31041
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