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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE * AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER * LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING * FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER * DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. */ /** The Haxe Reflection API allows retrieval of type information at runtime. This class complements the more lightweight Reflect class, with a focus on class and enum instances. @see https://haxe.org/manual/types.html @see https://haxe.org/manual/std-reflection.html **/ extern class Type { /** Returns the class of `o`, if `o` is a class instance. If `o` is null or of a different type, null is returned. In general, type parameter information cannot be obtained at runtime. **/ static function getClass(o:T):Class; /** Returns the enum of enum instance `o`. An enum instance is the result of using an enum constructor. Given an `enum Color { Red; }`, `getEnum(Red)` returns `Enum`. If `o` is null, null is returned. In general, type parameter information cannot be obtained at runtime. **/ static function getEnum(o:EnumValue):Enum; /** Returns the super-class of class `c`. If `c` has no super class, null is returned. If `c` is null, the result is unspecified. In general, type parameter information cannot be obtained at runtime. **/ static function getSuperClass(c:Class):Class; /** Returns the name of class `c`, including its path. If `c` is inside a package, the package structure is returned dot- separated, with another dot separating the class name: `pack1.pack2.(...).packN.ClassName` If `c` is a sub-type of a Haxe module, that module is not part of the package structure. If `c` has no package, the class name is returned. If `c` is null, the result is unspecified. The class name does not include any type parameters. **/ static function getClassName(c:Class):String; /** Returns the name of enum `e`, including its path. If `e` is inside a package, the package structure is returned dot- separated, with another dot separating the enum name: `pack1.pack2.(...).packN.EnumName` If `e` is a sub-type of a Haxe module, that module is not part of the package structure. If `e` has no package, the enum name is returned. If `e` is null, the result is unspecified. The enum name does not include any type parameters. **/ static function getEnumName(e:Enum):String; /** Resolves a class by name. If `name` is the path of an existing class, that class is returned. Otherwise null is returned. If `name` is null or the path to a different type, the result is unspecified. The class name must not include any type parameters. **/ static function resolveClass(name:String):Class; /** Resolves an enum by name. If `name` is the path of an existing enum, that enum is returned. Otherwise null is returned. If `name` is null the result is unspecified. If `name` is the path to a different type, null is returned. The enum name must not include any type parameters. **/ static function resolveEnum(name:String):Enum; /** Creates an instance of class `cl`, using `args` as arguments to the class constructor. This function guarantees that the class constructor is called. Default values of constructors arguments are not guaranteed to be taken into account. If `cl` or `args` are null, or if the number of elements in `args` does not match the expected number of constructor arguments, or if any argument has an invalid type, or if `cl` has no own constructor, the result is unspecified. In particular, default values of constructor arguments are not guaranteed to be taken into account. **/ static function createInstance(cl:Class, args:Array):T; /** Creates an instance of class `cl`. This function guarantees that the class constructor is not called. If `cl` is null, the result is unspecified. **/ static function createEmptyInstance(cl:Class):T; /** Creates an instance of enum `e` by calling its constructor `constr` with arguments `params`. If `e` or `constr` is null, or if enum `e` has no constructor named `constr`, or if the number of elements in `params` does not match the expected number of constructor arguments, or if any argument has an invalid type, the result is unspecified. **/ static function createEnum(e:Enum, constr:String, ?params:Array):T; /** Creates an instance of enum `e` by calling its constructor number `index` with arguments `params`. The constructor indices are preserved from Haxe syntax, so the first declared is index 0, the next index 1 etc. If `e` or `constr` is null, or if enum `e` has no constructor named `constr`, or if the number of elements in `params` does not match the expected number of constructor arguments, or if any argument has an invalid type, the result is unspecified. **/ static function createEnumIndex(e:Enum, index:Int, ?params:Array):T; /** Returns a list of the instance fields of class `c`, including inherited fields. This only includes fields which are known at compile-time. In particular, using `getInstanceFields(getClass(obj))` will not include any fields which were added to `obj` at runtime. The order of the fields in the returned Array is unspecified. If `c` is null, the result is unspecified. **/ static function getInstanceFields(c:Class):Array; /** Returns a list of static fields of class `c`. This does not include static fields of parent classes. The order of the fields in the returned Array is unspecified. If `c` is null, the result is unspecified. **/ static function getClassFields(c:Class):Array; /** Returns a list of the names of all constructors of enum `e`. The order of the constructor names in the returned Array is preserved from the original syntax. If `e` is null, the result is unspecified. **/ static function getEnumConstructs(e:Enum):Array; /** Returns the runtime type of value `v`. The result corresponds to the type `v` has at runtime, which may vary per platform. Assumptions regarding this should be minimized to avoid surprises. **/ static function typeof(v:Dynamic):ValueType; /** Recursively compares two enum instances `a` and `b` by value. Unlike `a == b`, this function performs a deep equality check on the arguments of the constructors, if exists. If `a` or `b` are null, the result is unspecified. **/ static function enumEq(a:T, b:T):Bool; /** Returns the constructor name of enum instance `e`. The result String does not contain any constructor arguments. If `e` is null, the result is unspecified. **/ static function enumConstructor(e:EnumValue):String; /** Returns a list of the constructor arguments of enum instance `e`. If `e` has no arguments, the result is []. Otherwise the result are the values that were used as arguments to `e`, in the order of their declaration. If `e` is null, the result is unspecified. **/ static function enumParameters(e:EnumValue):Array; /** Returns the index of enum instance `e`. This corresponds to the original syntactic position of `e`. The index of the first declared constructor is 0, the next one is 1 etc. If `e` is null, the result is unspecified. **/ static function enumIndex(e:EnumValue):Int; /** Returns a list of all constructors of enum `e` that require no arguments. This may return the empty Array `[]` if all constructors of `e` require arguments. Otherwise an instance of `e` constructed through each of its non- argument constructors is returned, in the order of the constructor declaration. If `e` is null, the result is unspecified. **/ static function allEnums(e:Enum):Array; } /** The different possible runtime types of a value. **/ enum ValueType { TNull; TInt; TFloat; TBool; TObject; TFunction; TClass(c:Class); TEnum(e:Enum); TUnknown; }