Reflective access to a source-only annotation

Reports attempts to reflectively check for the presence of a non-runtime annotation.

Using Class.isAnnotationPresent() to test for an annotation whose retention policy is set to SOURCE or CLASS (the default) will always have a negative result. This mistake is easy to overlook.

Example:

{
  getClass().isAnnotationPresent(SourceAnnotation.class); //always false
}

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.SOURCE)
@interface SourceAnnotation {}

Inspection Details
Available in:	IntelliJ IDEA 2023.3, Qodana for JVM 2023.3
Plugin:	Java, 233.SNAPSHOT

Last modified: 13 July 2023