Bean Property Access and Annotations

Question

Are there any java libraries which allow me to utilize BeanUtils like property access bean.prop1.prop2 while allowing access to the annotations on the getter/field itself?

For example, I have a bean class that looks like this:

public class Child {
  @SomeCustomAnnotation
  private String name;
  //standard bean getter setters
  }

public class Parent {
  private Child child;
  //standard bean getter setters
}

And I would like to be able to retrieve not only the value of the property I'm looking for but also any annotations annotated on that field that's value is being returned:

String childsName = SomeLibrary.getValue(parent, "child.name");
Annotation[] annotationsOnChildsName = SomeLibrary.getAnnotations(parent, "child.name");

Do any libraries exist which allow both features? I can use Commons BeanUtils to do pure property access for values and Plain Reflection to get the annotations on properties, but there doesn't seem to be a way to combine both abilities.

Answer 1

Unless I am missing something you can just the reflection's Field class

Field f = Parent.class.getField("name");
Object value = f.get(parent);
f.getAnnotations();