Guaranteed order of annotations?

[Joel Borggrén-Franck]

Iirc there are no guatantees but we try as best as we can to maintain
source code order. It has been a couple of years now but I think there are
a few corner cases with repeating annotations.

Cheers
/Joel

On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 at 18:14, Gunnar Morling <gunnar at hibernate.org> wrote:

> Hi,
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> Is there any order guaranteed in which an element's annotations are
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> returned by AnnotatedElement#getDeclaredAnnotations()? Specifically,
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> is this the order in which the annotations are given in the source
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> code?
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> Section 9.7.5. of the JLS ("Multiple Annotations of the Same Type")
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> makes a statement of the source order being considered by the array of
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> the implicit container annotation created for a repeatable annotation
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> they appeared in the context").
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> But I couldn't find any authoritative description on the ordering
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> behaviour of getDeclaredAnnotations(). Should we assume that we cannot
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> rely on the order in the source?
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> Thanks for any pointers,
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> --Gunnar
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