Spring 3.0 cannot get custom Annotation at runtime [closed]

Question

I am working with spring and tried to add a custom Annotation to an Entity-Bean. All I want to do is, accessing the fields with the custom annotation @ runtime via reflection. The Problem is, that although there are more than one Annotation on the fields, none of them are accessable at runtime:

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(ElementType.FIELD)
public @interface ChangeableField {

}

The entity:

public class Order {

    @NotNull
    @Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
    @DateTimeFormat(pattern = "dd:MM:yyyy HH:mm")
    @ChangeableField
    private Date scheduledStart;

    @NotNull
    @Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
    @DateTimeFormat(pattern = "dd:MM:yyyy HH:mm")
    @ChangeableField
    private Date scheduledEnd;

    //...
}

I have absolutely no idea what to do

Order.class.getField("scheduledStart").getAnnotation(ChangableField.class);

returns always null. (BTW all declared annotations on this field are null)

Maybe it has something to do with spring?

I would appreciate any help!

Thanks in advance

EDIT

I don't know why but now it's working properly:

for (Field currentField : order.getClass().getDeclaredFields()) {
    if (currentField.getAnnotation(ChangeableField.class) != null
    && map.containsKey(currentField.getName())) {
         //..

Thanks for your help

BTW It was just a typo in this post here..

Answer 1

Try this:

Order.class
     .getDeclaredField("scheduledStart")
     .getAnnotation(ChangableField.class);

Class.getField(fieldname) retrieves public fields of the class and all super classes. Your field is private, so you need Class.getDeclaredField(fieldname), which retrieves fields of all visibilities, but limited to this class only.