Annotation Interface ContentType

@Target(ANNOTATION_TYPE) @Retention(RUNTIME) public @interface ContentType

Meta annotation, specifies that an annotation represents a content type, such as a time span or a frequency.

The following example shows how a temperature content type can be created and used.

First declare a temperature annotation using the ContentType annotation:

@MetadataDefinition
@ContentType
@Name("com.example.Temperature")
@Label("Temperature")
@Target(ElementType.FIELD)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
public @interface Temperature {
    public static final String KELVIN = "KELVIN";
    public static final String CELSIUS = "CELSIUS";
    public static final String FAHRENEHIT = "FAHRENHEIT";

    String value() default CELSIUS;
}

Then declare an event, annotate a field and commit the data:

@Name("com.example.CPU")
@Label("CPU")
@Category({ "Hardware", "CPU" })
@Period("1 s")
@StackTrace(false)
public static class CPUEvent extends Event {
    @Label("ID")
    String id;

    @Temperature(Temperature.KELVIN)
    @Label("Temperature")
    float temperature;
}

public static void main(String... args) throws InterruptedException {
    FlightRecorder.addPeriodicEvent(CPUEvent.class, () -> {
        for (var cpu : listCPUs()) {
            CPUEvent event = new CPUEvent();
            event.id = cpu.id();
            event.temperature = cpu.temperature(); // in Kelvin
            event.commit();
        }
    });
    Thread.sleep(10_000);
}

Finally, inspect the annotation when displaying event data:

void printTemperaturesInCelsius(Path file) throws IOException {
    for (RecordedEvent event : RecordingFile.readAllEvents(file)) {
        for (ValueDescriptor field : event.getEventType().getFields()) {
            for (AnnotationElement ae : field.getAnnotationElements()) {
                ContentType type = ae.getAnnotation(ContentType.class);
                if (type != null) {
                    if (ae.getTypeName().equals("com.example.Temperature")) {
                        double value = event.getDouble(field.getName());
                        String unit = (String) ae.getValue("value");
                        double celsius = switch (unit) {
                            case "CELSIUS" -> value;
                            case "KELVIN" -> value - 273.15;
                            case "FAHRENHEIT" -> (value - 32) / 1.8;
                            default -> throw new IllegalStateException("Unknown temperature unit '" + unit + "'");
                        };
                        System.out.println(celsius + " C");
                    } else {
                        System.err.println("Can't format content type " + ae.getTypeName() + " for field " + field.getName());
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Since:: 9

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