public interface TypeMirror
Represents a type in the Java programming language.
Types include primitive types, declared types (class and interface types),
array types, type variables, and the null type.
Also represented are wildcard type arguments,
the signature and return types of executables,
and pseudo-types corresponding to packages and to the keyword void
.
Types should be compared using the utility methods in Types
. There is no guarantee that any particular type will always
be represented by the same object.
To implement operations based on the class of an TypeMirror
object, either use a visitor
or use the result of the getKind()
method. Using instanceof
is not necessarily a reliable idiom for
determining the effective class of an object in this modeling
hierarchy since an implementation may choose to have a single
object implement multiple TypeMirror
subinterfaces.
Element
,
Types
Method Summary | ||
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accept(TypeVisitor<R,P> v,
P p)
Applies a visitor to this type. |
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boolean |
equals(Object obj)
Obeys the general contract of Object.equals . |
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TypeKind |
getKind()
Returns the kind of this type. |
|
int |
hashCode()
Obeys the general contract of Object.hashCode . |
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String |
toString()
Returns an informative string representation of this type. |
Method Detail |
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TypeKind getKind()
kind
of this type.
boolean equals(Object obj)
Object.equals
.
This method does not, however, indicate whether two types represent
the same type.
Semantic comparisons of type equality should instead use
Types.isSameType(TypeMirror, TypeMirror)
.
The results of t1.equals(t2)
and
Types.isSameType(t1, t2)
may differ.
equals
in class Object
obj
- the object to be compared with this type
true
if the specified object is equal to this oneObject.hashCode()
,
Hashtable
int hashCode()
Object.hashCode
.
hashCode
in class Object
equals(java.lang.Object)
String toString()
toString
in class Object
<R,P> R accept(TypeVisitor<R,P> v, P p)
R
- the return type of the visitor's methodsP
- the type of the additional parameter to the visitor's methodsv
- the visitor operating on this typep
- additional parameter to the visitor