All Superinterfaces:

FileObject

All Known Implementing Classes:

ForwardingJavaFileObject, SimpleJavaFileObject

public interface JavaFileObject
extends FileObject 

Since:

1.6

See Also:

JavaFileManager

• Nested Class Summary

  Nested Classes

  Modifier and Type	Interface	Description
  static class	JavaFileObject.Kind	Kinds of JavaFileObjects.

• Method Summary

  All Methods

  Modifier and Type	Method	Description
  Modifier	getAccessLevel ()	Provides a hint about the access level of the class represented by this file object.
  JavaFileObject.Kind	getKind ()	Gets the kind of this file object.
  NestingKind	getNestingKind ()	Provides a hint about the nesting level of the class represented by this file object.
  boolean	isNameCompatible (String simpleName, JavaFileObject.Kind kind)	Checks if this file object is compatible with the specified simple name and kind.

  • Methods inherited from interface javax.tools.FileObject

    delete, getCharContent, getLastModified, getName, openInputStream, openOutputStream, openReader, openWriter, toUri

• Method Detail

  • getKind

    JavaFileObject.Kind getKind()

    Gets the kind of this file object.

    Returns:

    the kind

  • isNameCompatible

    boolean isNameCompatible(String simpleName,
     JavaFileObject.Kind kind)

    Checks if this file object is compatible with the specified simple name and kind. A simple name is a single identifier (not qualified) as defined in The Java™ Language Specification, section 6.2 "Names and Identifiers".

    Parameters:

    simpleName - a simple name of a class

    kind - a kind

    Returns:

    true if this file object is compatible; false otherwise

  • getNestingKind

    NestingKind getNestingKind()

    Provides a hint about the nesting level of the class represented by this file object. This method may return NestingKind.MEMBER to mean NestingKind.LOCAL or NestingKind.ANONYMOUS. If the nesting level is not known or this file object does not represent a class file this method returns null.

    Returns:

    the nesting kind, or null if the nesting kind is not known

  • getAccessLevel

    Modifier getAccessLevel()

    Provides a hint about the access level of the class represented by this file object. If the access level is not known or if this file object does not represent a class file this method returns null.

    Returns:

    the access level