From cf52e525ae8e009dbf8a1e5a7a0535e06aa84dcf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juergen Hoeller <jhoeller@vmware.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:35:42 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] AnnotationUtils.getAnnotation generally supports
 meta-annotation lookup

git-svn-id: https://src.springframework.org/svn/spring-framework/trunk@1581 50f2f4bb-b051-0410-bef5-90022cba6387
---
 .../core/annotation/AnnotationUtils.java             | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/annotation/AnnotationUtils.java b/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/annotation/AnnotationUtils.java
index 484ce377e78..f67071365b2 100644
--- a/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/annotation/AnnotationUtils.java
+++ b/org.springframework.core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/annotation/AnnotationUtils.java
@@ -75,7 +75,17 @@ public abstract class AnnotationUtils {
 	 * @see org.springframework.core.BridgeMethodResolver#findBridgedMethod(Method)
 	 */
 	public static <A extends Annotation> A getAnnotation(Method method, Class<A> annotationType) {
-		return BridgeMethodResolver.findBridgedMethod(method).getAnnotation(annotationType);
+		Method resolvedMethod = BridgeMethodResolver.findBridgedMethod(method);
+		A ann = resolvedMethod.getAnnotation(annotationType);
+		if (ann == null) {
+			for (Annotation metaAnn : resolvedMethod.getAnnotations()) {
+				ann = metaAnn.annotationType().getAnnotation(annotationType);
+				if (ann != null) {
+					break;
+				}
+			}
+		}
+		return ann;
 	}
 
 	/**