- /*
- * @(#)DeclaredType.java 1.6 04/06/07
- *
- * Copyright 2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
- * SUN PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL. Use is subject to license terms.
- */
-
- package com.sun.mirror.type;
-
-
- import java.util.Collection;
-
- import com.sun.mirror.declaration.TypeDeclaration;
-
-
- /**
- * Represents a declared type, either a class type or an interface type.
- * This includes parameterized types such as {@code java.util.Set<String>}
- * as well as raw types.
- *
- * <p> While a <tt>TypeDeclaration</tt> represents the <i>declaration</i>
- * of a class or interface, a <tt>DeclaredType</tt> represents a class
- * or interface <i>type</i>, the latter being a use of the former.
- * See {@link TypeDeclaration} for more on this distinction.
- *
- * <p> A <tt>DeclaredType</tt> may represent a type
- * for which details (declaration, supertypes, <i>etc.</i>) are unknown.
- * This may be the result of a processing error, such as a missing class file,
- * and is indicated by {@link #getDeclaration()} returning <tt>null</tt>.
- * Other method invocations on such an unknown type will not, in general,
- * return meaningful results.
- *
- * @author Joseph D. Darcy
- * @author Scott Seligman
- * @version 1.6 04/06/07
- * @since 1.5
- */
-
- public interface DeclaredType extends ReferenceType {
-
- /**
- * Returns the declaration of this type.
- *
- * <p> Returns null if this type's declaration is unknown. This may
- * be the result of a processing error, such as a missing class file.
- *
- * @return the declaration of this type, or null if unknown
- */
- TypeDeclaration getDeclaration();
-
- /**
- * Returns the type that contains this type as a member.
- * Returns <tt>null</tt> if this is a top-level type.
- *
- * <p> For example, the containing type of {@code O.I<S>}
- * is the type {@code O}, and the containing type of
- * {@code O<T>.I<S>} is the type {@code O<T>}.
- *
- * @return the type that contains this type,
- * or <tt>null</tt> if this is a top-level type
- */
- DeclaredType getContainingType();
-
- /**
- * Returns (in order) the actual type arguments of this type.
- * For a generic type nested within another generic type
- * (such as {@code Outer<String>.Inner<Number>}), only the type
- * arguments of the innermost type are included.
- *
- * @return the actual type arguments of this type, or an empty collection
- * if there are none
- */
- Collection<TypeMirror> getActualTypeArguments();
-
- /**
- * Returns the interface types that are direct supertypes of this type.
- * These are the interface types implemented or extended
- * by this type's declaration, with any type arguments
- * substituted in.
- *
- * <p> For example, the interface type extended by
- * {@code java.util.Set<String>} is {@code java.util.Collection<String>}.
- *
- * @return the interface types that are direct supertypes of this type,
- * or an empty collection if there are none
- */
- Collection<InterfaceType> getSuperinterfaces();
- }