MethodHandles.Empty(MethodType) Method

Definition

Produces a method handle of the requested type which ignores any arguments, does nothing, and returns a suitable default depending on the return type.

[Android.Runtime.Register("empty", "(Ljava/lang/invoke/MethodType;)Ljava/lang/invoke/MethodHandle;", "", ApiSince=33)]
public static Java.Lang.Invoke.MethodHandle? Empty (Java.Lang.Invoke.MethodType? type);
[<Android.Runtime.Register("empty", "(Ljava/lang/invoke/MethodType;)Ljava/lang/invoke/MethodHandle;", "", ApiSince=33)>]
static member Empty : Java.Lang.Invoke.MethodType -> Java.Lang.Invoke.MethodHandle

Parameters

type
MethodType

the type of the desired method handle

Returns

a constant method handle of the given type, which returns a default value of the given return type

Attributes

Remarks

Produces a method handle of the requested type which ignores any arguments, does nothing, and returns a suitable default depending on the return type. That is, it returns a zero primitive value, a null, or void.

The returned method handle is equivalent to dropArguments(zero(type.returnType()), 0, type.parameterList()).

Added in 9.

Java documentation for java.lang.invoke.MethodHandles.empty(java.lang.invoke.MethodType).

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Applies to