Package com.tngtech.archunit.core.domain

Interface JavaType

All Superinterfaces:

HasName

All Known Subinterfaces:

JavaParameterizedType

All Known Implementing Classes:

JavaClass, JavaGenericArrayType, JavaTypeVariable, JavaWildcardType

@PublicAPI(usage=ACCESS)
public interface JavaType
extends HasName

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface com.tngtech.archunit.core.domain.properties.HasName

HasName.AndFullName, HasName.Functions, HasName.Predicates

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
JavaClass	toErasure()	Converts this JavaType into the erased type (compare the Java Language Specification).

Methods inherited from interface com.tngtech.archunit.core.domain.properties.HasName

getName

Method Detail

toErasure

@PublicAPI(usage=ACCESS)
JavaClass toErasure()

Converts this JavaType into the erased type (compare the Java Language Specification). In particular this will result in

• the class itself, if this type is a JavaClass
• the JavaClass equivalent to Object, if this type is an unbound JavaTypeVariable
• the JavaClass equivalent to the erasure of the left most bound, if this type is a bound JavaTypeVariable
• if this type is a JavaGenericArrayType, the erasure will be the JavaClass equivalent to the array type that has the erasure of the generic component type of this type as its component type; e.g. take the generic array type T[][] where T is unbound, then the erasure will be the array type Object[][]