Enum Visibility

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    Serializable, Comparable<Visibility>

    public enum Visibility
    extends Enum<Visibility>
    Represents the visibility of a given Element: public, protected, private or default/package-private.

    The constants for this enum are ordered according by increasing visibility.

    Author:
    Gregory Kick
    • Method Detail

      • values

        public static Visibility[] values()
        Returns an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared. This method may be used to iterate over the constants as follows:
        for (Visibility c : Visibility.values())
            System.out.println(c);
        
        Returns:
        an array containing the constants of this enum type, in the order they are declared
      • valueOf

        public static Visibility valueOf​(String name)
        Returns the enum constant of this type with the specified name. The string must match exactly an identifier used to declare an enum constant in this type. (Extraneous whitespace characters are not permitted.)
        Parameters:
        name - the name of the enum constant to be returned.
        Returns:
        the enum constant with the specified name
        Throws:
        IllegalArgumentException - if this enum type has no constant with the specified name
        NullPointerException - if the argument is null
      • ofElement

        public static Visibility ofElement​(Element element)
        Returns the visibility of the given Element. While package elements don't technically have a visibility associated with them, this method returns PUBLIC for PackageElement instances.
      • effectiveVisibilityOfElement

        public static Visibility effectiveVisibilityOfElement​(Element element)
        Returns effective visibility of the given element meaning that it takes into account the visibility of its enclosing elements.