I have code that has two warnings. The code is from a commandline Expense manager project that uses a List to save and access expenses. Saving and retrieving the List is done via serialisation and ...

I read that the usage of @jakarta.validation.constraints.Pattern should be used on return types of Charsequence. The issue that I am facing is that in my case, I am using generated java files from ...

I wanted to extend a bit of code that processes annotations to also support the Nullable annotation from the Checker Framework. To my surprise, this didn't work. Upon further inspection, it seems like ...

I am having a null analysis issue when compiling GriefPrevention in Eclipse. For example, line 304 in PlayerEventHandler.java invokes Player#getLocation(). The API specification for this class can be ...

I want to create method level annotations & generate code for it. I want to avoid using AspectJ and would prefer a compile time code generator so that if I've to ever debug the code I can actually ...

I have @SuppressWarnings("javadoc") on almost every class. My IDE gives me a warning on virtually all of them: "Redundant suppression". I assume advances in technology have made ...

@ConditionalOnProperty works straight forward, depending upon this property is present (and/or value is correct), condition will result into true or false. But can someone explain how @...

I'm working with several tables that have multiple fields sharing common characteristics, such as attributes like length and nullability. For instance, the field Username remains consistent across ...

I have following annotation interface: @Target({ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.TYPE}) @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) @Inherited @Documented public @interface MockToken { String user() ...

At my org we extensively use @Value.Immutable annotation with interfaces or abstract classes to generate Immutable classes with builders for our internal data transfer objects (DTOs) [ref]. We are ...

I want to write an annotation that can change the parameter value to some default if it is null. For example: static void myMethod(@NullToDefault String param) { System.out.println(param); } ...

We're trying to add "Nullaway" (https://github.com/uber/NullAway) to our repo. This is a tool that assumes everything not annotated with @Nullable can't be null and enforces it in compile ...

I want to add an annotation to my controller methods that is used to check if the user can perform an action or access a piece of data before the controller method is called. I want to be able to ...

We have a wrapper class for checking the Android SDK version, and it uses the ChecksSdkIntAtLeast annotation. Here's a trimmed example of the class with just one getter and the logging removed: class ...

I was looking into annotations but wasn't able to grasp how annotations actually work. So I tried to break my problem as follows: Lets suppose I have a spring boot project that is used as a ...