Annotation processing

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I’ve been browsing the apt “tutorial” and the com.sun.mirror package and finally figured out how to go through my annotations in my source code. My only question is…how do I generate a new source file with the adjustments caused by the annotations?

For example, I have an interface Inter with one method: method(). I make an annotation @CallFromMethod to mark methods in a class that should be called from that class’ method() method. I make the appropriate AnnotationProcessor and AnnotationProcessorFactory, and I go through all the @CallFromMethod annotations in a source file. How do I change this:


public class SourceTest {

     @CallFromMethod
     public callMe() {
            ...
     }
}

into this:


public class SourceTest implements Inter {

    public callMe() {
           ...
    }

    public void method() {
            callMe();
    }
}

using the apt? I know the example is stupid, but bear with me and please try to help me out.

Thanks in advance!