JDK 14 RFR of JDK-8234917: "Explicitly discuss java.lang.Enum in Class.isEnum spec"

Chris Hegarty chris.hegarty at oracle.com
Thu Nov 28 09:07:55 UTC 2019


Looks good Joe.

-Chris.

> On 27 Nov 2019, at 15:44, Joe Darcy <joe.darcy at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Please review the small doc RFE to address
> 
>     JDK-8234917: "Explicitly discuss java.lang.Enum in Class.isEnum spec"
> 
> Patch below; thanks,
> 
> -Joe
> 
> --- a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Class.java    Wed Nov 27 06:36:41 2019 -0800
> +++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Class.java    Wed Nov 27 06:53:07 2019 -0800
> @@ -3503,7 +3503,9 @@
>       * Returns true if and only if this class was declared as an enum in the
>       * source code.
>       *
> -     * Note that if an enum constant is declared with a class body,
> +     * Note that {@link java.lang.Enum} is not itself an enum type.
> +     *
> +     * Also note that if an enum constant is declared with a class body,
>       * the class of that enum constant object is an anonymous class
>       * and <em>not</em> the class of the declaring enum type. The
>       * {@link Enum#getDeclaringClass} method of an enum constant can
> 



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