Added in API level 34

TypeDescriptor

interface TypeDescriptor

java.lang.invoke.TypeDescriptor

Known Direct Subclasses TypeDescriptor.OfField, TypeDescriptor.OfMethod TypeDescriptor.OfField An entity that has a field type descriptor. TypeDescriptor.OfMethod An entity that has a method type descriptor Method descriptors conforming to JVMS {@jvms 4.

Known Indirect Subclasses Class, MethodType Class Instances of the class represent classes and interfaces in a running Java application. MethodType A method type represents the arguments and return type accepted and returned by a method handle, or the arguments and return type passed and expected by a method handle caller.

An entity that has a type descriptor.

Summary

Nested classes
abstract	OfField An entity that has a field type descriptor.
abstract	OfMethod An entity that has a method type descriptor Method descriptors conforming to JVMS {@jvms 4.

Public methods
abstract String!	descriptorString() Returns the descriptor string for this TypeDescriptor object.

Public methods

descriptorString

Added in API level 34

abstract fun descriptorString(): String!

Returns the descriptor string for this TypeDescriptor object. If this TypeDescriptor object can be described in nominal form, then this method returns a type descriptor as specified in JVMS {@jvms 4.3}. The result descriptor string can be used to produce a java.lang.constant.ConstantDesc nominal descriptor. Otherwise, the result string is not a type descriptor. No java.lang.constant.ConstantDesc nominal descriptor can be produced from the result string.

Return
String!	the descriptor string for this TypeDescriptor object