I am looking for a general way to convert an instance org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.ITypeBindingto an instance org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.Type. Although I believe there must be some kind of API call for this, I cannot find it.
There are various ways to do this manually, depending on the specific type.
Is there a general way to take ITypeBindingand get a Typewithout all these special cases? Accepting value Stringand returning a is Typealso acceptable.
Update
From the answer so far, it seems I have to handle all these special cases. Here is the first attempt to do this. I am sure that this is not entirely correct, so the rating is evaluated:
public static Type typeFromBinding(AST ast, ITypeBinding typeBinding) {
if( ast == null )
throw new NullPointerException("ast is null");
if( typeBinding == null )
throw new NullPointerException("typeBinding is null");
if( typeBinding.isPrimitive() ) {
return ast.newPrimitiveType(
PrimitiveType.toCode(typeBinding.getName()));
}
if( typeBinding.isCapture() ) {
ITypeBinding wildCard = typeBinding.getWildcard();
WildcardType capType = ast.newWildcardType();
ITypeBinding bound = wildCard.getBound();
if( bound != null ) {
capType.setBound(typeFromBinding(ast, bound)),
wildCard.isUpperbound());
}
return capType;
}
if( typeBinding.isArray() ) {
Type elType = typeFromBinding(ast, typeBinding.getElementType());
return ast.newArrayType(elType, typeBinding.getDimensions());
}
if( typeBinding.isParameterizedType() ) {
ParameterizedType type = ast.newParameterizedType(
typeFromBinding(ast, typeBinding.getErasure()));
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
List<Type> newTypeArgs = type.typeArguments();
for( ITypeBinding typeArg : typeBinding.getTypeArguments() ) {
newTypeArgs.add(typeFromBinding(ast, typeArg));
}
return type;
}
String qualName = typeBinding.getQualifiedName();
if( "".equals(qualName) ) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("No name for type binding.");
}
return ast.newSimpleType(ast.newName(qualName));
}
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