Interface AnnotatedWildcardType

All Superinterfaces:

AnnotatedElement, AnnotatedType

public interface AnnotatedWildcardType
extends AnnotatedType

AnnotatedWildcardType represents the potentially annotated use of a wildcard type argument, whose upper or lower bounds may themselves represent annotated uses of types.

See Java Language Specification:

4.5.1 Type Arguments of Parameterized Types

Since:

1.8

Method Summary

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

Methods inherited from interface AnnotatedElement

getAnnotationsByType, getDeclaredAnnotation, getDeclaredAnnotationsByType, isAnnotationPresent

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
default <T extends Annotation> T[]	getAnnotationsByType(Class<T> annotationClass)	Returns annotations that are associated with this element.
default <T extends Annotation> T	getDeclaredAnnotation(Class<T> annotationClass)	Returns this element's annotation for the specified type if such an annotation is directly present, else null.
default <T extends Annotation> T[]	getDeclaredAnnotationsByType(Class<T> annotationClass)	Returns this element's annotation(s) for the specified type if such annotations are either directly present or indirectly present.
default boolean	isAnnotationPresent(Class<? extends Annotation> annotationClass)	Returns true if an annotation for the specified type is present on this element, else false.

Methods inherited from interface AnnotatedType

getAnnotation, getAnnotations, getDeclaredAnnotations, getType

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
<T extends Annotation> T	getAnnotation(Class<T> annotationClass)	Returns this element's annotation for the specified type if such an annotation is present, else null.
Annotation[]	getAnnotations()	Returns annotations that are present on this element.
Annotation[]	getDeclaredAnnotations()	Returns annotations that are directly present on this element.
Type	getType()	Returns the underlying type that this annotated type represents.

Method Details

getAnnotatedLowerBounds

AnnotatedType[] getAnnotatedLowerBounds()

Returns the potentially annotated lower bounds of this wildcard type. If no lower bound is explicitly declared, the lower bound is the type of null. In this case, a zero length array is returned.

API Note:

While to date a wildcard may have at most one lower bound, callers of this method should be written to accommodate multiple bounds.

Returns:

the potentially annotated lower bounds of this wildcard type or an empty array if no lower bound is explicitly declared.

See Also:

• WildcardType.getLowerBounds()

getAnnotatedUpperBounds

AnnotatedType[] getAnnotatedUpperBounds()

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

API Note:

While to date a wildcard may have at most one upper bound, callers of this method should be written to accommodate multiple bounds.

Returns:

the potentially annotated upper bounds of this wildcard type

See Also:

• WildcardType.getUpperBounds()

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 AnnotatedWildcardType.

Specified by:

getAnnotatedOwnerType in interface AnnotatedType

Returns:

null

Since:

9