Proposal to make new-in-Java-SE-8 methods on AnnotatedElement default methods

[Joe Darcy]

Hi Alex,

Thanks for the close reading; I've changed this part of the @implSpec to:

      * @implSpec The default implementation first calls {@link
      * #getDeclaredAnnotationsByType(Class)} passing {@code
      * annotationClass} as the argument. If the returned array has
      * length greater than zero, the array is returned. If the returned
      * array is zero-length and this {@code AnnotatedElement} is a
      * class and the argument type is an inheritable annotation type,
      * and the superclass of this {@code AnnotatedElement} is non-null,
      * then the returned result is the result of calling {@link
      * #getAnnotationsByType(Class)} on the superclass with {@code
      * annotationClass} as the argument. Otherwise, a zero-length
      * array is returned.

Cheers,

-Joe

On 10/30/2013 11:50 AM, Alex Buckley wrote:
> spelling: AnnoatedElement
>
> Consider mentioning only the 'length' of an array, never its 'size' 
> (or at least use the same term within a single @implSpec).
>
> There's a {@code getAnnotationsByType} which is missing its (Class).
>
> Alex
>
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