Status of Annotations on typealias - supported?

Language Design
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Hi

The original KEEP for typealias suggests that annotations on typealias will be supported:

Q: Are annotations on type alias declarations going to be supported?
A: Yes. Just like annotations on properties, they’ll be stored on synthetic methods in JVM binaries.

This doesn’t appear to be working yet – is this on the roadmap in any upcoming release?

Thanks

2

Annotations on type aliases should be already supported.

Could you show the particular case where they do not work?

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That’s great news – thanks!!

I’m unclear how to access them.

In the given example:

@DataAttribute("http://foaf/FirstName")
typealias FirstName = String
@DataAttribute("http://foaf/LastName")
typealias LastName = String

@Retention(AnnotationRetention.RUNTIME)
@Target(AnnotationTarget.TYPEALIAS)
annotation class DataAttribute(val value:String)

data class Person(val firstName: FirstName, val lastName: LastName)

How are the annotations associated with FirstName and LastName accessed via reflection?

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Unfortunately, there’s no API currently to get annotations from a typealias declaration in kotlin-reflect. I’ve reported an issue: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-21489