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

Fri Jun 30 21:06:23 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.

Not present in the PR as written, but it would be possible to introduce a sealed interface PrimitiveType that the wrapper classes implemented so that the return type of forPrimitiveName could be Class<? extends PrimitiveType> rather than Class<?>.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14743#issuecomment-1615192869