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

Further to the existing answers, if you are in control of the enum class (can edit it), you could simply add a method to the enum to fetch the required annotation i.e.

AnnotationClass getAnnotation(){
   Field field = this.getClass().getField(this.name());
   return field.getAnnotation(AnnotationClass.class);       
}

or all it's annotations:

Annotation[] getAnnotations(){
   Field field = this.getClass().getField(this.name());
   return field.getAnnotations();
}

Adjust the code above to handle exceptions (NoSuchFieldException and SecurityException).