Module java.base

Package java.lang.reflect

Interface AnnotatedTypeVariable

All Superinterfaces:

AnnotatedElement, AnnotatedType

public interface AnnotatedTypeVariable
extends AnnotatedType

AnnotatedTypeVariable represents the potentially annotated use of a type variable, whose declaration may have bounds which themselves represent annotated uses of types.

See Java Language Specification:

4.4 Type Variables

Since:

1.8

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
AnnotatedType[]	getAnnotatedBounds()	Returns the potentially annotated bounds of this type variable.
AnnotatedType	getAnnotatedOwnerType()	Returns the potentially annotated type that this type is a member of, if this type represents a nested type.

Methods declared in interface java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedElement

getAnnotationsByType, getDeclaredAnnotation, getDeclaredAnnotationsByType, isAnnotationPresent

Methods declared in interface java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedType

getAnnotation, getAnnotations, getDeclaredAnnotations, getType

Method Details

getAnnotatedBounds

AnnotatedType[] getAnnotatedBounds()

Returns the potentially annotated bounds of this type variable. If no bound is explicitly declared, the bound is unannotated Object.

Returns:

the potentially annotated bounds of this type variable

See Also:

TypeVariable.getBounds()

getAnnotatedOwnerType

AnnotatedType getAnnotatedOwnerType()

Returns the potentially annotated type that this type is a member of, if this type represents a nested type. For example, if this type is @TA O<T>.I<S>, return a representation of @TA O<T>.

Returns null for an AnnotatedType that is an instance of AnnotatedTypeVariable.

Specified by:

getAnnotatedOwnerType in interface AnnotatedType

Returns:

null

Since:

9