Annotation on Intersectingtype

[Alex Buckley]

On 1/23/2014 8:24 PM, Mohan Radhakrishnan wrote:
> Ok. I understand I have to get each bound and get the annotation applied
> on it. There is no annotation applied on the intersection type itself.

Well, in theory you should be able to get the bounds' mirrors 
individually, and read their annotations, but it doesn't currently work. 
So, you have to get the intersection type's mirror (representing all the 
bounds in one go) and read the annotations from there - you even sent 
code yesterday showing how to do that. We are working on cleaning up the 
type annotation reflection for a JDK 8 update release.

> Did you mean  something like this by cast?
>
> |Serializable f2|
> |= (BiPredicate<String,String> & Serializable)|
> |(s,t) -> s.equalsIgnoreCase(t);|

Yes. The use of an intersection type in a cast is brand new in SE 8. 
Although, I guess the Language Model doesn't expose individual 
expressions like casts, so the javadoc would have to be worded carefully.

Alex