JavaFileObject JDK 1.6)

Description

public interface JavaFileObject

File abstraction for tools operating on Java™ programming language source and class files.

See also: JavaFileManager

Methods

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public Modifier getAccessLevel ()

Provides a hint about the access level of the class represented by this file object.

Provides a hint about the access level of the class represented
by this file object. If the access level is not known or if
this file object does not represent a class file this method
returns null.
Returns: the access level

public Kind getKind ()

Gets the kind of this file object.

public NestingKind getNestingKind ()

Provides a hint about the nesting level of the class represented by this file object.

Provides a hint about the nesting level of the class
represented by this file object. This method may return
NestingKind.MEMBER to mean
NestingKind.LOCAL or NestingKind.ANONYMOUS.
If the nesting level is not known or this file object does not
represent a class file this method returns null.
Returns: the nesting kind, or {@code null} if the nesting kind is not known

public boolean isNameCompatible (String simpleName, Kind kind)

Checks if this file object is compatible with the specified simple name and kind.