Custom Annotations - defining @Target

Question

A bit new to defining custom annotations, what am I doing wrong:

You can have multiple values in the Target annotation.

@Target(value={TYPE, FIELD, METHOD, PARAMETER, CONSTRUCTOR, LOCAL_VARIABLE})

However, I can't get this to work in my IDE

I must do something like this:

@Target(value={ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.FIELD, ElementType.METHOD, ElementType.PARAMETER, ElementType.CONSTRUCTOR, ElementType.LOCAL_VARIABLE})

What am I doing wrong?

I'm using IntelliJ 14

_cannot resolve Symbol **TYPE**_ and similar for the other values, when _ElementType._ is not present — ycomp, Oct 17 '15 at 17:47
You do have the correct imports ? (`java.lang.annotation.ElementType`) — Gaël J, Oct 17 '15 at 17:50
yes, it gives the same error when that import is used, it was the first thing I tried - I'm using Java 8, don't know if that matters — ycomp, Oct 17 '15 at 17:51
Looks more like an Intellij issue than Java to me. Have you tried compiling outside Intellij ? — Gaël J, Oct 17 '15 at 17:53

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 17 '15 at 17:52

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Just add:

import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.*;

answered Oct 17 '15 at 17:52

leeor

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