Get annotations for enum type variable

Question

I have some nonnull variable (e.g. en1) of Enum type. The question is: how to get annotations related to enumeration constant referenced by e

Answer 1

I just read from your comment that you already found the answer. I just wanted to remark for other people interested that, in order for that to work, those annotations must have been declared with the correct retention policy, like this:

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(ElementType.FIELD)
public @interface Anno1 {
   // ...
}

Without this, they will not be accessible at runtime.

Further reading:

• JavaDoc: RetentionPolicy
• Wikipedia: Java annotation