com.bea.util.jam
Interface JMember

All Superinterfaces:

JAnnotatedElement, JElement

All Known Subinterfaces:

JClass, JConstructor, JField, JInvokable, JMethod

public interface JMember
extends JAnnotatedElement

Represents an abstraction which can be member of a class. Such abstractions include: constructors, methods, fields, and classes (in the case of inner classes). JMember's share the following attributes in common: they have some level of access protection (public/protected/private) and are (usually) contained within a class.

Because classes themselves can be members of other classes, JClass extends JMember. In the case where a JClass represents a top-level class (i.e. not an inner class), JMember.getContainingClass() will always return null.

Note that the various access protection levels are all mutually exclusive. For a given abstraction, only one of isPrivate(), isPackagePrivate(), isProtected(), or isPublic() will return true. Note that this information is also exposed via getModifiers(), which returns a bit-field that is identical to that described in java.lang.reflect.Modifier.

getContainingClass

JClass getContainingClass()

Returns a representation of the class which contains this member. Note that if this member is an inner class, this method returns the class in which this class is declared (i.e. 'outer'). If this member is a top-level class, this method will always return null.

getModifiers

int getModifiers()

Returns the modifiers specifier. This is a bit field exactly like those returned by java.lang.Class.getModifiers() and can be manipulated using java.lang.reflect.Modifier in the same way.

isPackagePrivate

boolean isPackagePrivate()

Return true if this member is package private (i.e. the default access protection level).

isPrivate

boolean isPrivate()

Return true if this member is private. Equivalent to calling Modifier.isPrivate(member.getModifiers()).

isProtected

boolean isProtected()

Return true if this member is protected. Equivalent to calling Modifier.isProtected(member.getModifiers()).

isPublic

boolean isPublic()

Return true if this member is public. Equivalent to calling Modifier.isProtected(member.getModifiers()).