Support package private annotations with AnnotationUtils [SPR-12858]

[spring-projects-issues]

Phil Webb opened SPR-12858 and commented

AnnotationUtils.getAnnotationAttributes currently doesn't work with package scope annotations.

I believe that calling method.setAccessible(true) when iterating the methods would solve the issue.

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/blob/master/spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/annotation/AnnotationUtils.java#L586

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Affects: 4.1.6

Issue Links:

• AnnotatedElementUtils should leniently ignore TypeNotPresentExceptions (just like AnnotationUtils) [SPR-12889] #17487 AnnotatedElementUtils should leniently ignore TypeNotPresentExceptions (just like AnnotationUtils)

[spring-projects-issues]

Juergen Hoeller commented

Since we are calling setAccessible for similar invocations in AnnotationUtils, this is arguably a consistency issue. I'll therefore backport this to 4.1.7 as well.

Juergen