Checking if an annotation is of a specific type

Question

I am using reflection to see if an annotation that is attached to a property of a class, is of a specific type. Current I am doing:

if(\"javax.validation.Valid\"         


        

Answer 1

Ok, I guess I should have done a little more research before posting the question. I discovered that I could use Class.isAssignableFrom(Class cls):

import javax.validation.Valid;

if(Valid.class.isAssignableFrom(annotation.annotationType())) {
   ...
}

This seems to do the job. I'm not sure if there are any caveats to using this approach, though.