How to skip an annotation call based on a flag in the same class

Question

I have couple of annotations on a getter as below. I would like to skip all the annotations call on the getter based on a boolean in the same class. Is there any way to do it?

@MyAnnotation1(message = "{someMessage1}")
@MyAnnotation2(message = "{someMessage2}")
public Date getFromDate() {
    return fromDate;
}

annotations are read by other programs to get metadata. what prog do you want to ignore it? — RNJ, Oct 02 '12 at 19:04
If this is an spring annotation, please specify the exact annotations you are using. There no general solution that works for all kinds of annotations. — Saintali, Oct 02 '12 at 20:22

Amit Deshpande · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-02T19:24:12.447

You can define another annotation as @Ignore on that field if that annotated field is set you can simply ignore your annotation processing.

   @Ignore
   private boolean value;

You can define your own annotation as

   @Target(ElementType.FIELD)
   @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
   /**
    * This Annotation should be used on boolean field to set specify whether annotation processing should be        ignored for that class
    */
   public @interface Ignore {

   }

Remember this is custom annotation so you will need to write code to handle it

PS Note: Assuming you are writing custom annotations. And there processing.

what class is `@Ignore` defined in? – matt b Oct 02 '12 at 19:16 — matt b, Oct 02 '12 at 19:16

How to skip an annotation call based on a flag in the same class

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