Kotlin annotation alias

Question

Is it somehow possible to have "annotation aliases" in Kotlin?

What I want to achieve is to transform this

@Colour("red")
fun method() = "something"

into something like this

annotationalias Red = Colour("red")

@Red
fun method() = "something"

Chandrachandragupta

That would be a cool feature, but it is currently not in Kotlin. You need to write your own annotation called Red, and write your own annotation processor that translates it into Colour("red"). – Absquatulate

If you have control over the processor that's reading the annotations, you can change it to search for aliases manually. Some libraries already include this, like Spring Boot's meta-annotations and composed annotations. – Minify

See also https://mcmap.net/q/1918721/-how-to-combine-several-annotation-into-one-in-kotlin/4161471 – Minify