org.freehep.rtti
Class IType

java.lang.Object
  org.freehep.rtti.IType

public class IType
extends Object

Defines a type in the RTTI. This type may be cascaded (typedef in C++) to another type. The methods isPrimitive, isEnumeration, getDimension and getPointer accomodate for this.

Version:

$Id: IType.java 8584 2006-08-10 23:06:37Z duns $

Author:

Mark Donszelmann

Method Summary

boolean	equals(Object o) returns true is the two types are equivalent, that is after all aliasing has been done
int	getDimension() Indicates the dimension of this type.
String	getName() Returns the name of the type.
int	getPointer() Indicates the number of pointer postfixes this type has.
String	getSignature(String packageName, Properties imports)
IType[]	getTypes() Indicates the template of this type.
boolean	isConst() Indicates if this type is a const type.
boolean	isEnumeration() Indicates if this type is an enumerated type.
boolean	isPrimitive() Indicates if this type is a primitive type.
boolean	isReference() Indicates if this type is a reference.
boolean	isVoid()
String	toString() Returns a string representation of this type.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

getName

public String getName()

Returns the name of the type. This name may be fully qualified. Otherwise it belongs to the current package.

Returns:

name of the type

isPrimitive

public boolean isPrimitive()

Indicates if this type is a primitive type.

Returns:

true if this type is a primitive

isEnumeration

public boolean isEnumeration()

Indicates if this type is an enumerated type.

Returns:

true if this type is an enumeration

isConst

public boolean isConst()

Indicates if this type is a const type.

Returns:

true if this type is a const

isReference

public boolean isReference()

Indicates if this type is a reference.

Returns:

true if reference

getPointer

public int getPointer()

Indicates the number of pointer postfixes this type has.

Returns:

pointer postfixes of this type (*)

getDimension

public int getDimension()

Indicates the dimension of this type.

1 = [], 2 = [][], etc...

Returns:

dimension of this type, 0 is no dimension.

getTypes

public IType[] getTypes()

Indicates the template of this type.

Returns:

type of template

isVoid

public boolean isVoid()

getSignature

public String getSignature(String packageName,
                           Properties imports)

toString

public String toString()

Returns a string representation of this type.

Overrides:

toString in class Object

Returns:

string representatoon of this type

equals

public boolean equals(Object o)

returns true is the two types are equivalent, that is after all aliasing has been done

Overrides:

equals in class Object