MetaType.java

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package org.jboss.errai.codegen.meta;

/**
 * Umbrella type for anything that could be used as a type in Java code:
 * MetaClass, MetaParameterizedType, MetaTypeVariable, MetaWildcardType, and
 * MetaGenericArrayType all implement this interface.
 *
 * @author Mike Brock <cbrock@redhat.com>
 * @author Jonathan Fuerth <jfuerth@redhat.com>
 */
public interface MetaType {

  /**
   * Returns the name of this type as it was written in the original source code.
   *
   * @return The name of this type as it was written in the original source code.
   */
  public String getName();
}