There is now an 'override this method' alternative for

setting the annotation you handle for an XAnnotationHandler<T>;
default behaviour still extracts the T part out of the signature.

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/core/lombok/eclipse/EclipseAnnotationHandler.java b/src/core/lombok/eclipse/EclipseAnnotationHandler.java
index ca9cac83..84304339 100644
--- a/src/core/lombok/eclipse/EclipseAnnotationHandler.java
+++ b/src/core/lombok/eclipse/EclipseAnnotationHandler.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 package lombok.eclipse;
 
 import lombok.core.AnnotationValues;
+import lombok.core.SpiLoadUtil;
 
 /**
  * Implement this interface if you want to be triggered for a specific annotation.
@@ -59,4 +60,13 @@ public abstract class EclipseAnnotationHandler<T extends java.lang.annotation.An
 	 */
 	public void preHandle(AnnotationValues<T> annotation, org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.Annotation ast, EclipseNode annotationNode) {
 	}
+	
+	/**
+	 * This handler is a handler for the given annotation; you don't normally need to override this class
+	 * as the annotation type is extracted from your {@code extends EclipseAnnotationHandler<AnnotationTypeHere>}
+	 * signature.
+	 */
+	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked") public Class<T> getAnnotationHandledByThisHandler() {
+		return (Class<T>) SpiLoadUtil.findAnnotationClass(getClass(), EclipseAnnotationHandler.class);
+	}
 }
diff --git a/src/core/lombok/eclipse/HandlerLibrary.java b/src/core/lombok/eclipse/HandlerLibrary.java
index 5f360f6f..bf01dc20 100644
--- a/src/core/lombok/eclipse/HandlerLibrary.java
+++ b/src/core/lombok/eclipse/HandlerLibrary.java
@@ -158,8 +158,7 @@ public class HandlerLibrary {
 		try {
 			for (EclipseAnnotationHandler<?> handler : SpiLoadUtil.findServices(EclipseAnnotationHandler.class, EclipseAnnotationHandler.class.getClassLoader())) {
 				try {
-					Class<? extends Annotation> annotationClass =
-						SpiLoadUtil.findAnnotationClass(handler.getClass(), EclipseAnnotationHandler.class);
+					Class<? extends Annotation> annotationClass = handler.getAnnotationHandledByThisHandler();
 					AnnotationHandlerContainer<?> container = new AnnotationHandlerContainer(handler, annotationClass);
 					String annotationClassName = container.annotationClass.getName().replace("$", ".");
 					if (lib.annotationHandlers.put(annotationClassName, container) != null) {