@RunWith(MetaAnnotations.class)

[dsaff]

Issue #194 suggests treating all annotations as meta-annotations.

While discussions about the relative costs and benefits of that proposal continue, there should be a way (in junit or junit.contrib) for a test developer to "opt-in" to meta-annotations. The obvious thing to try is using a custom runner:

@RunWith(MetaAnnotations.class)
@MetaAnnotationForClass
public class TestClass {
   @MetaAnnotationOnMethod public void foo();
}

Making this work will likely require some method extraction on BlockJUnit4ClassRunner. MetaAnnotations could override getAnnotatedMethods, but statements like

method.getAnnotation(Ignore.class) != null

Would need to be changed to call a protected method:

 getAnnotation(method, Ignore.class) != null

So that MetaAnnotations could override getAnnotation.

[nealeu]

This sounds a pragmatic way forwards.

[dsaff]

Excellent.

[kcooney]

I'm not sure this is a good path forward. A class can only have one runner. If you wanted to use Parameterized or Theories, you couldn't use MetaAnnotations