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 en1 variable?

Answer 1

Try this (java reflection):

String field = En.AAA.name(); En.class.getField(field).getAnnotations(); 

It should get you the annotations from AAA.

EDIT:

As the author supposed:

en1.getClass().getField(((Enum)en1).name()).getAnnotations();  

Works for him :)

Answer 2

As I've already offered:

en1.getClass().getField(((Enum)en1).name()).getAnnotations(); 

To be clearer:

String name = e.name(); // Enum method to get name of presented enum constant Annotation[] annos = e.getClass().getField(name).getAnnotations(); // Classical reflection technique 

In this case we have no need to know real class of en1.

See also: remark about obfuscated case.