Annotations not working

I'm tweaking my modular command system now to use annotations (@Command) and I want to know how I can get the values of the annotation. Currently, I am trying to get all the annotations in a class file but it isn't working (It returns an empty array list). Here is what I'm doing: https://gist.github.com/mrkirby153/927cb846b444040b90aa
An example class: https://gist.github.com/mrkirby153/e0d19da08aba4f4f27e3

What am I doing wrong?

 

You need to iterate through the class' methods and then get the annotations of those methods. The annotations you are getting now are class-level annotations such as:

Code:java

@SomeAnnotation
public class MyClass {
 
    //...
 
}

 

1Rogue

What? Can I have an example?

 

mrkirby153 You are getting the Class's annotations. If you want the annotations on a Method, you have to loop through the classes Methods and check those annotations.

 

mrkirby153 You currently are iterating through all of the annotations that on the class when you should be iterating through the annotations on the methods. You should be looking at something like this:

Code:java

for (Method method : YourClass.class.getMethods()) {
    if (method.isAnnotationPresent(YourAnnotation.class)) {
        YourAnnotation yourAnnotation = method.getAnnotation(YourAnnotation.class);
        // ...
    }
}

Obviously you should replace YourClass with the class you are getting the methods from and YourAnnotation with the annotation's class.