How to create an instance of an annotation

Question

I am trying to do some Java annotation magic. I must say I am still catching up on annotation tricks and that certain things are still not quite clear to me.

So... I hav

Answer 1

I did this for adding annotation reference on my weld unit test:

@Qualifier
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target({ METHOD, FIELD, PARAMETER })
public @interface AuthenticatedUser {

    String value() default "foo";

    @SuppressWarnings("all")
    static class Literal extends AnnotationLiteral implements AuthenticatedUser {

        private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

        public static final AuthenticatedUser INSTANCE = new Literal();

        private Literal() {
        }

        @Override
        public String value() {
            return "foo";
        }
    }
}

usage:

Bean createUserInfo() {
    return MockBean.builder()
            .types(UserInfo.class)
            .qualifiers(AuthenticatedUser.Literal.INSTANCE)
            .create((o) -> new UserInfo())
            .build();
}