java - Annotate anonymous inner class

Question

Is there a way to annotate an anonymous inner class in Java?

In this example could you add a class level annotation to Class2?

public void method1() {
  add(new Class2() {
    public void method3() {}
  });
}

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3021548/annotate-anonymous-inner-class

Answer 1

No. You'd need to promote it to a "proper" class. It can still be scoped within the outer class if necessary, so it doesn't need to be a top-level class, or public, or whatever. But it does need a proper class definition to attach the annotation to.