hexAnnotation

Utilities for reading and writing class metadata

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Dependencies

• hexReflection

Features

• Read metadata at compile time.
• Handles inheritance chain.
• Read properties and methods signatures (to be used by DI frameworks).
• Use hexReflection to export annotated (@Inject, @PostConstruct", @Optional, @PreDestroy) members information (essentially reflection data) to a static field instance.
• Generates logging statements based on method annotations
  • More info here
• Replaces expressions in annotations with their respective values
  • More info here

Simple example

To generate a class description at compile-time, implement IInjectorContainer and add annotations on the members that you want to produce reflection.

class MockClassInjectee implements IInjectorContainer
{
	@Inject( "id" )
	public var property : String;
	//property informations will be stored
	
	@Inject( "id" )
	public function new( arg : Int ) 
	{
		//constructor informations will be stored
	}
	
	public function doSomething() : Void
	{
		//this method will be ignored
	}
	
	@PostConstruct( 1 )
	public function doSomething() : Void
	{
		//this method description will be stored as well
	}
}

To get your reflection data at runtime, use FastClassDescriptionProvider like shown below.

var provider = new FastClassDescriptionProvider();
var description = provider.getClassDescription( MockClassInjectee );