kotlin.reflect.KClass.kt Maven / Gradle / Ivy
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package kotlin.reflect
/**
* Represents a class and provides introspection capabilities.
* Instances of this class are obtainable by the `::class` syntax.
* See the [Kotlin language documentation](http://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/reflection.html#class-references)
* for more information.
*
* @param T the type of the class.
*/
public interface KClass : KDeclarationContainer, KAnnotatedElement {
/**
* The simple name of the class as it was declared in the source code,
* or `null` if the class has no name (if, for example, it is an anonymous object literal).
*/
public val simpleName: String?
/**
* The fully qualified dot-separated name of the class,
* or `null` if the class is local or it is an anonymous object literal.
*/
public val qualifiedName: String?
/**
* All functions and properties accessible in this class, including those declared in this class
* and all of its superclasses. Does not include constructors.
*/
override val members: Collection>
/**
* All constructors declared in this class.
*/
public val constructors: Collection>
/**
* All classes declared inside this class. This includes both inner and static nested classes.
*/
public val nestedClasses: Collection>
/**
* The instance of the object declaration, or `null` if this class is not an object declaration.
*/
public val objectInstance: T?
/**
* Returns `true` if [other] is a [KClass] instance representing the same class on a given platform.
*
* On JVM this means that the given instance is backed by the same [Class] object as this one. In particular, it requires
* that the two classes are loaded with the same class loader and have the same name. Note that there are cases where the behavior
* of this method may seem unintuitive:
* * For each JVM primitive type, there are two classes at runtime: one for the primitive itself, and another for the wrapper class.
* [KClass] instances for those classes are different: [KClass] for `int` is **not equal** to [KClass] for `java.lang.Integer`,
* although both have the same qualified name [kotlin.Int].
* * For JVM arrays of different types, [KClass] instances are different,
* although all of them have the same qualified name [kotlin.Array].
*/
override fun equals(other: Any?): Boolean
override fun hashCode(): Int
}