RFR: JDK-6361826: (reflect) provide method for mapping strings to class object for primitive types

Sat Jul 1 01:36:03 UTC 2023

On Fri, 30 Jun 2023 20:57:54 GMT, Joe Darcy <darcy at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Going over some old issues and found this RFE, posting without any tests or a CSR first to get some feedback on the overall API.

The descriptor string "I", "J", etc possible but not for "int", "long", "byte" etc  which are keywords and can't be used as identifiers to name a class.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14743#issuecomment-1615341542