Class ExpressionSnippet

public class ExpressionSnippet
extends Snippet

Snippet for an assignment or variable-value expression. The Kind is Snippet.Kind.EXPRESSION.

ExpressionSnippet is immutable: an access to any of its methods will always return the same result. and thus is thread-safe.

Since:
9

Nested Classes

Nested classes/interfaces declared in class jdk.jshell.Snippet

Snippet.Kind, Snippet.Status, Snippet.SubKind

Methods

Modifier and Type Method Description
String name()

Variable name which is the value of the expression.
String typeName()

Type of the expression

Methods declared in class jdk.jshell.Snippet

id, kind, source, subKind

Methods declared in class java.lang.Object

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

Methods

name

public String name()

Variable name which is the value of the expression. Since the expression is either just a variable identifier or it is an assignment to a variable, there is always a variable which is the subject of the expression. All other forms of expression become temporary variables which are instead referenced by a VarSnippet.

Returns:
the name of the variable which is the subject of the expression.

typeName

public String typeName()

Type of the expression

Returns:
String representation of the type of the expression.

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