Java Reference
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public boolean
isLocalClass()
Returns
true
if this class represents a local inner class.
public boolean
isAnonymousClass()
Returns
true
if this class represents an anonymous inner
class.
Note that there is no way to determine if a member class is a static nes-
ted class or an inner class.
The example showed the two methods you can use to find out where a
type fits in the type hierarchy:
public Type[]
getGenericInterfaces()
Returns an array of
Type
objects for each of the interfaces im-
plemented by this type. If no interfaces are implemented you
will get a zero-length array. If an implemented interface is a
parameterized type, then the
Type
object will be an instance
of
ParameterizedType
; otherwise, the
Type
object will be a
Class
object.
public Type
getGenericSuperclass()
Returns the
Type
object for the superclass of this type. This
returns
null
if this
Class
object represents the
Object
class, an
interface,
void
, or primitive type, since these have no super-
class. If this
Class
object represents an array, the
Class
object
for
Object
is returned. By invoking this recursively you can de-
termine all superclasses of a class. If the superclass is a para-
meterized type, the
Type
object will be an instance of
Paramet-
erizedType
; otherwise, the
Type
object will be a
Class
object.
The legacy methods
getInterfaces
and
getSuperclass
are similar to the
above except they return
Class
objects instead of
Type
objects. Any para-
