Drails Commons

This library contains some utility methods to work with reflectable api.

Get Annotation Values of classes:

If you want to get the value of certain annotation that is over the class of an object, you can use GetValueOfAnnotation class. For example, lets say you have the class Person as fallows:

@myReflectable
@Table(name: 'person')
class Person {
    @Column(name: 'name', length: 50)
    String name;
}

then lets say you want to check if the annotation is over the class Person. In that case you could do:

var personClassMirror = myReflectable.reflectType(Person);
var isAnnotationOverPerson = new IsAnnotation<Table>().onClass(personClassMirror);
print(isAnnotationOverPerson); // should prints 'true'

Lets say in a different case you want to obtain the object containing all the attributes of @Table, then you can do:

var personClassMirror = myReflectable.reflectType(Person);
var annotationOverPerson = new GetAnnotation<Table>().fromClass(personClassMirror);
print(annotationOverPerson.name); // it should prints 'person'

Get Annotation Values of Instances:

If you want to get the value of certain annotation that is over the class of an object, you can use GetValueOfAnnotation class. For example, lets say you have the class Person as fallows:

@myReflectable
@Table(name: 'person')
class Person {
    @Column(name: 'name', length: 50)
    String name;
}

then lets say you want to check if the annotation is over an instance of class Person. In that case you could do:

var person = new Person();
var personInstanceMirror = myReflectable.reflect(person);
var isAnnotationOverPerson = new IsAnnotation<Table>().onInstance(personInstanceMirror);
print(isAnnotationOverPerson); // should prints 'true'

Lets say in a different case you want to obtain the object containing all the attributes of @Table, then you can do:

var person = new Person();
var personInstanceMirror = myReflectable.reflect(person);
var annotationOverPerson = new GetAnnotation<Table>().fromInstance(personClassMirror);
print(annotationOverPerson.name); // it should prints 'person'

Get Annotation Values of classes:

If you want to get the value of certain annotation that is over the class of an object, you can use GetValueOfAnnotation class. For example, lets say you have the class Person as fallows:

@myReflectable
@Table(name: 'person')
class Person {
    @Column(name: 'name', length: 50)
    String name;
}

then lets say you want to check if the annotation is over the attribute name. In that case you could do:

var nameDeclarationMirror = myReflectable.reflectType(Person).declarations[0];
var isAnnotationOverName = new IsAnnotation<Column>().onDeclaration(nameDeclarationMirror);
print(isAnnotationOverName); // should prints 'true'

Lets say you want to obtain the object containing all the attributes of @Column, then you can do:

var nameDeclarationMirror = myReflectable.reflectType(Person).declarations[0];
var annotationOverName = new GetAnnotation<Column>().fromDeclaration(nameDeclarationMirror);
print(annotationOverName.name); // it should prints 'person'
print(annotationOverPerson.length); // it should prints '20'

Get Public Variables from an object

Let's say you want to get all the public attributes from a class, then you need to do:

var personCM = myReflectable.reflectType(Person);
var publicAttributes = getPublicVariablesFromClass(personCM, myReflectable);