01: /*
02: * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
03: * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
04: * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
05: * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
06: * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
07: * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
08: *
09: * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
10: *
11: * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
12: * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
13: * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
14: * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
15: * limitations under the License.
16: */
17:
18: package java.lang.reflect;
19:
20: /**
21: * Represents a parameterized type.
22: *
23: * @since 1.5
24: */
25: public interface ParameterizedType extends Type {
26:
27: /**
28: * Gets the type arguments for this type.
29: *
30: * @return An array of {@link Type}, which may be empty.
31: * @throws TypeNotPresentException
32: * if one of the type arguments can't be found.
33: * @throws MalformedParameterizedTypeException
34: * if one of the type arguments can't be instantiated for some
35: * reason.
36: */
37: Type[] getActualTypeArguments();
38:
39: /**
40: * Gets the parent/owner type, if this type is an inner type, otherwise
41: * <code>null</code> is returned if this is a top-level type.
42: *
43: * @return An instance of {@link Type} or <code>null</code>.
44: * @throws TypeNotPresentException
45: * if one of the type arguments can't be found.
46: * @throws MalformedParameterizedTypeException
47: * if one of the type arguments can't be instantiated for some
48: * reason.
49: */
50: Type getOwnerType();
51:
52: /**
53: * Gets the raw type of this type.
54: *
55: * @return An instance of {@link Type}.
56: */
57: Type getRawType();
58: }
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