Class.AsSubclass(Class) Method

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Definition

Namespace:: Java.Lang

Assembly:: Mono.Android.dll

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Casts this Class object to represent a subclass of the class represented by the specified class object.

[Android.Runtime.Register("asSubclass", "(Ljava/lang/Class;)Ljava/lang/Class;", "")]
[Java.Interop.JavaTypeParameters(new System.String[] { "U" })]
public Java.Lang.Class AsSubclass (Java.Lang.Class clazz);

[<Android.Runtime.Register("asSubclass", "(Ljava/lang/Class;)Ljava/lang/Class;", "")>]
[<Java.Interop.JavaTypeParameters(new System.String[] { "U" })>]
member this.AsSubclass : Java.Lang.Class -> Java.Lang.Class

Parameters

clazz: Class

the class of the type to cast this class object to

Returns

Class

this Class object, cast to represent a subclass of the specified class object.

Attributes: RegisterAttribute JavaTypeParametersAttribute

Remarks

Casts this Class object to represent a subclass of the class represented by the specified class object. Checks that the cast is valid, and throws a ClassCastException if it is not. If this method succeeds, it always returns a reference to this class object.

This method is useful when a client needs to "narrow" the type of a Class object to pass it to an API that restricts the Class objects that it is willing to accept. A cast would generate a compile-time warning, as the correctness of the cast could not be checked at runtime (because generic types are implemented by erasure).

Added in 1.5.

Java documentation for java.lang.Class.asSubclass(java.lang.Class<U>).

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