org.openide.cookies

Interface InstanceCookie.Of

All Superinterfaces:

InstanceCookie, Node.Cookie

Enclosing interface:

InstanceCookie

public static interface InstanceCookie.Of
extends InstanceCookie

Enhanced cookie that can answer queries about the type of the instance it creates. It does not add any additional ability except to improve performance, because it is not necessary to load the actual class of the object into memory.

Since:

1.4

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface org.openide.cookies.InstanceCookie

InstanceCookie.Of

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	instanceOf(Class<?> type) Checks if the object created by this cookie is an instance of the given type.

Methods inherited from interface org.openide.cookies.InstanceCookie

instanceClass, instanceCreate, instanceName

Method Detail

instanceOf

boolean instanceOf(Class<?> type)

Checks if the object created by this cookie is an instance of the given type. The same as type.isAssignableFrom(instanceClass()) But this can prevent the actual class from being loaded into the Java VM.

Parameters:

type - the class type we want to check

Returns:

true if this cookie will produce an instance of the given type