TypeMirror JDK 1.6)

Description

public interface TypeMirror

Represents a type in the Java programming language.

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 TypeMirror.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.

See also: Element Types

Methods

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public R accept (TypeVisitor< R, P> v, P p)

Applies a visitor to this type.

public boolean equals (Object obj)

Obeys the general contract of Object.equals.

Obeys the general contract of 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.
Returns: {@code true} if the specified object is equal to this one
Parameters:
- obj - the object to be compared with this type

public TypeKind getKind ()

Returns the kind of this type.

Returns the kind of this type.
Returns: the kind of this type

public int hashCode ()

Obeys the general contract of Object.hashCode.

public String toString ()

Returns an informative string representation of this type.