Interface TypeMirror

TypeKind getKind()

Returns the kind of this type.

• The kind of a primitive type is one of the kinds for which TypeKind.isPrimitive() returns true.
• The kind of a null type is NULL.
• The kind of an array type is ARRAY.
• The kind of a declared type is DECLARED.
• The kind of an error type is ERROR.
• The kind of a type variable is TYPEVAR.
• The kind of a wildcard type is WILDCARD.
• The kind of an executable type is EXECUTABLE.
• The kind of a pseudo-type is one of VOID, PACKAGE, MODULE, or NONE.
• The kind of a union type is UNION.
• The kind of an intersection type is INTERSECTION.

boolean equals(Object obj)

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.

int hashCode()

Obeys the general contract of Object.hashCode.

String toString()

Returns an informative string representation of this type. If possible, the string should be of a form suitable for representing this type in source code. Any names embedded in the result are qualified if possible.

List<? extends AnnotationMirror> getAnnotationMirrors()

Returns the annotations that are directly present on this construct.

Note that any annotations returned by this method are type annotations.

<A extends Annotation> A getAnnotation(Class<A> annotationType)

Returns this construct's annotation of the specified type if such an annotation is present, else null.

The annotation returned by this method could contain an element whose value is of type Class. This value cannot be returned directly: information necessary to locate and load a class (such as the class loader to use) is not available, and the class might not be loadable at all. Attempting to read a Class object by invoking the relevant method on the returned annotation will result in a MirroredTypeException, from which the corresponding TypeMirror may be extracted. Similarly, attempting to read a Class[]-valued element will result in a MirroredTypesException.

Note: This method is unlike others in this and related interfaces. It operates on runtime reflective information — representations of annotation types currently loaded into the VM — rather than on the representations defined by and used throughout these interfaces. Consequently, calling methods on the returned annotation object can throw many of the exceptions that can be thrown when calling methods on an annotation object returned by core reflection. This method is intended for callers that are written to operate on a known, fixed set of annotation types.

Note that any annotation returned by this method is a type annotation.

<A extends Annotation> A[] getAnnotationsByType(Class<A> annotationType)

Returns annotations that are associated with this construct. If there are no annotations associated with this construct, the return value is an array of length 0. The order of annotations which are directly or indirectly present on a construct C is computed as if indirectly present annotations on C are directly present on C in place of their container annotation, in the order in which they appear in the value element of the container annotation. The difference between this method and AnnotatedConstruct.getAnnotation(Class) is that this method detects if its argument is a repeatable annotation type, and if so, attempts to find one or more annotations of that type by "looking through" a container annotation.

The annotations returned by this method could contain an element whose value is of type Class. This value cannot be returned directly: information necessary to locate and load a class (such as the class loader to use) is not available, and the class might not be loadable at all. Attempting to read a Class object by invoking the relevant method on the returned annotation will result in a MirroredTypeException, from which the corresponding TypeMirror may be extracted. Similarly, attempting to read a Class[]-valued element will result in a MirroredTypesException.

Note: This method is unlike others in this and related interfaces. It operates on runtime reflective information — representations of annotation types currently loaded into the VM — rather than on the representations defined by and used throughout these interfaces. Consequently, calling methods on the returned annotation object can throw many of the exceptions that can be thrown when calling methods on an annotation object returned by core reflection. This method is intended for callers that are written to operate on a known, fixed set of annotation types.

Note that any annotations returned by this method are type annotations.

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

Applies a visitor to this type.