nl.tudelft.simulation.language.reflection
Class FieldSignature

java.lang.Object
  nl.tudelft.simulation.language.reflection.FieldSignature

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable

public class FieldSignature
extends java.lang.Object
implements java.io.Serializable

A field descriptor represents the type of a class, instance, or local variable. It is a series of characters generated by the grammar described at The Java Virtual Machine Specification .

(c) copyright 2002-2005 Delft University of Technology , the Netherlands.

See for project information www.simulation.tudelft.nl/language
License of use: Lesser General Public License (LGPL) , no warranty

Since:

1.5

Version:

$Revision: 1.8 $ $Date: 2005/08/04 12:08:54 $

Author:

Peter Jacobs , Niels Lang Alexander Verbraeck

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

FieldSignature(java.lang.Class clazz)
constructs a new FieldSignature

FieldSignature(java.lang.String value)
constructs a new FieldSignature

Method Summary

java.lang.Class	getClassValue()
java.lang.String	getStringValue()
static java.lang.Class	toClass(java.lang.String descriptor) converts a fieldDescriptor to its class representation
static java.lang.String	toDescriptor(java.lang.Class clazz) converts a field to its descriptor
static java.lang.String	toDescriptor(java.lang.Class[] classes) converts an array of fields to its descriptor
java.lang.String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

FieldSignature

public FieldSignature(java.lang.String value)

constructs a new FieldSignature

Parameters:

value - the value of the descriptor

FieldSignature

public FieldSignature(java.lang.Class clazz)

constructs a new FieldSignature

Parameters:

clazz - The class

Method Detail

getStringValue

public java.lang.String getStringValue()

Returns:

Returns the value of the field descriptor

getClassValue

public java.lang.Class getClassValue()
                              throws java.lang.ClassNotFoundException

Returns:

Returns the value of the field descriptor

Throws:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException - if the class cannot be found.

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

See Also:

Object.toString()

toDescriptor

public static final java.lang.String toDescriptor(java.lang.Class[] classes)

converts an array of fields to its descriptor

Parameters:

classes - the classes to represent

Returns:

String the descriptor String

toDescriptor

public static final java.lang.String toDescriptor(java.lang.Class clazz)

converts a field to its descriptor

Parameters:

clazz - the clazz to represent

Returns:

String the descriptor String

toClass

public static final java.lang.Class toClass(java.lang.String descriptor)
                                     throws java.lang.ClassNotFoundException

converts a fieldDescriptor to its class representation

Parameters:

descriptor - the descriptor

Returns:

Class the class

Throws:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException - on failure