feature: one can get annotation values directly

[monperrus]

Two advantages:

• this eases the API: direct annot.getValueAsObject("foo") instead of ((CAST)annot.getActualAnnotation()).foo()
• this enables getting the annotation value even if the annotation binary class file is not in the classpath

[surli]

What if the key does not exist? We would get a ClassCastException?

[monperrus]

It would return null. In Java cast(null) returns null.

[surli]

It will work with the string but not int as an int can never return null.
Actually I just tested it and it throws a NPE. Could you add a check?

[monperrus]

done

[pvojtechovsky]

Thank You Martin.

[spoon-bot]

API changes: 3 (Detected by Revapi)

Old API: fr.inria.gforge.spoon:spoon-core:jar:6.3.0-20180606.145239-122 / New API: fr.inria.gforge.spoon:spoon-core:jar:6.3.0-SNAPSHOT

	Method was added to an interface.
Old	none
New	method CtAnnotation#getValueAsInt(String)
Breaking	binary: non_breaking,

	Method was added to an interface.
Old	none
New	method CtAnnotation#getValueAsObject(String)
Breaking	binary: non_breaking,

	Method was added to an interface.
Old	none
New	method CtAnnotation#getValueAsString(String)
Breaking	binary: non_breaking,