Question

How to add the @Override annotation to a method while creating the class using javaassist?

ClassPool pool = ClassPool.getDefault();
CtClass ctClasz = pool.makeClass("test.ExampleImpl");
ctClasz.addInterface(pool.get(MyInterface.class.getName()));
CtMethod method = CtNewMethod.make ("@Override public void print() { System.out.println(\"Hello!    \"); }", ctClasz);
ctClasz.addMethod(method);

System.out.println("Implementd: Interfaces:" + ctClasz.getInterfaces());
System.out.println("Methods: " + ctClasz.getMethods());
ctClasz.writeFile("D:");

This code is throwing exception as follows:

 Exception in thread "main" javassist.CannotCompileException: [source error] syntax error    
 near "@Override p"
at javassist.CtNewMethod.make(CtNewMethod.java:78)
at javassist.CtNewMethod.make(CtNewMethod.java:44)
at javaassist.Demo.main(Demo.java:17)
 Caused by: compile error: syntax error near "@Override p"
at javassist.compiler.Parser.parseClassType(Parser.java:983)
at javassist.compiler.Parser.parseFormalType(Parser.java:191)
at javassist.compiler.Parser.parseMember1(Parser.java:51)
at javassist.compiler.Javac.compile(Javac.java:89)
at javassist.CtNewMethod.make(CtNewMethod.java:73)
... 2 more

Answer 1

@Override isn’t a runtime annotation so even if you could add it, it wouldn’t make any difference whatsoever.

For annotations that do have a runtime effect (RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME), you can take a look at this question.