Interface TypeVariable

All Superinterfaces:

AnnotatedConstruct, ReferenceType, TypeMirror

public interface TypeVariable
extends ReferenceType

Represents a type variable. A type variable may be explicitly declared by a type parameter of a type, method, or constructor. A type variable may also be declared implicitly, as by the capture conversion of a wildcard type argument (see chapter 5 of The Java Language Specification).

See Java Language Specification:

4.4 Type Variables

Since:

1.6

See Also:

• TypeParameterElement

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Element	asElement()	Returns the element corresponding to this type variable.
TypeMirror	getLowerBound()	Returns the lower bound of this type variable.
TypeMirror	getUpperBound()	Returns the upper bound of this type variable.

Methods declared in interface TypeMirror

accept, equals, getAnnotation, getAnnotationMirrors, getAnnotationsByType, getKind, hashCode, toString

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
<R,P> R	accept(TypeVisitor<R,P> v, P p)	Applies a visitor to this type.
boolean	equals(Object obj)	Obeys the general contract of Object.equals.
<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.
List<? extends AnnotationMirror>	getAnnotationMirrors()	Returns the annotations that are directly present on this construct.
<A extends Annotation> A[]	getAnnotationsByType(Class<A> annotationType)	Returns annotations of the specified type that are associated with this construct.
TypeKind	getKind()	Returns the kind of this type.
int	hashCode()	Obeys the general contract of Object.hashCode.
String	toString()	Returns an informative string representation of this type.

Method Details

asElement

Element asElement()

Returns the element corresponding to this type variable.

Returns:

the element corresponding to this type variable

getUpperBound

TypeMirror getUpperBound()

Returns the upper bound of this type variable.

If this type variable was declared with no explicit upper bounds, the result is java.lang.Object. If it was declared with multiple upper bounds, the result is an intersection type; individual bounds can be found by examining the result's bounds.

Returns:

the upper bound of this type variable

See Java Language Specification:

4.9 Intersection Types

getLowerBound

TypeMirror getLowerBound()

Returns the lower bound of this type variable. While a type parameter cannot include an explicit lower bound declaration, capture conversion can produce a type variable with a non-trivial lower bound. Type variables otherwise have a lower bound of NullType.

Returns:

the lower bound of this type variable

See Java Language Specification:

18.1.3 Bounds