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.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/core/lombok/javac/JavacAnnotationHandler.java b/src/core/lombok/javac/JavacAnnotationHandler.java
index 434eab46..169e2026 100644
--- a/src/core/lombok/javac/JavacAnnotationHandler.java
+++ b/src/core/lombok/javac/JavacAnnotationHandler.java
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ package lombok.javac;
 import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
 
 import lombok.core.AnnotationValues;
+import lombok.core.SpiLoadUtil;
 
 import com.sun.tools.javac.tree.JCTree.JCAnnotation;
 
@@ -53,4 +54,13 @@ public abstract class JavacAnnotationHandler<T extends Annotation> {
 	 * as access useful methods such as generating warnings or errors focused on the annotation.
 	 */
 	public abstract void handle(AnnotationValues<T> annotation, JCAnnotation ast, JavacNode 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(), JavacAnnotationHandler.class);
+	}
 }