[Checkers] Note about asDefined method

[Mahmood Ali]

Hi Artemus,

The method sounds good for your purposes.

However, it would fail for cases where type variables extend each  
other, like in:

    class MyClass<E, V extends E> { V field; }

You can use a while-loop instead of the first 'if' or call the method  
recursively.

Regards,
Mahmood

On Sep 16, 2008, at 1:22 PM, Artemus Harper wrote:

>     /**
>      * Gets the a type as its defined. For example if type was @Anno  
> String s = "hello". This would return the annotations as declared on  
> the String class.
>      * Primitives and arrays are returned without any annotations.
>      * @param type
>      * @param factory
>      * @return The type as its defined
>      */
>     public static AnnotatedTypeMirror asDefined(AnnotatedTypeMirror  
> type, AnnotatedTypeFactory factory)
>     {
>         if(type instanceof AnnotatedTypeVariable)
>         {
>             type = ((AnnotatedTypeVariable)type).getUpperBound();
>         }
>         if(type instanceof AnnotatedDeclaredType)
>             return  
> factory 
> .getAnnotatedType 
> (((AnnotatedDeclaredType)type).getUnderlyingType().asElement());
>         else if(type instanceof AnnotatedPrimitiveType || type  
> instanceof AnnotatedArrayType)
>             return type.getCopy(false);
>         else
>             throw new IllegalArgumentException("type is not  
> assignable");
>     }