Is there something like TypeToken for AnnotatedTypes

Question

Since there's no type literals in Java,

TypeToken

trick is commonly used instead.
Say, you want to get a

Type

instance representing

List<String>

, you'd do:

new TypeToken<List<String>>(){}.getType()

Now, I wonder if similar trickery is possible to get an instance of an

AnnotatedType

. For example, to represent

List<@NonNull String>

or even

@NonNull List<@NonNull String>

.

EDIT:
Here's a full

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Answer 1

Just create a type token - or any anonymous subclass with annotated type parameters - with the annotations and then use reflection to extract the annotated types.

Note that this only works for annotations with runtime retention.

Using the fullType() method from the linked answer:

    List<?> token = new ArrayList<@NonNull String>() {};
    fullType("", token.getClass().getAnnotatedSuperclass());

prints

java.util.ArrayList
<
    @org.checkerframework.checker.nullness.qual.NonNull()
    java.lang.String
>

Is there something like TypeToken for AnnotatedTypes

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