Function

Summary

Returns the element type of a Java array.

Package

lw-ji

Signature

java-array-element-type object => result

Arguments

object

A Java object.

Values

result

A keyword, t or nil.

Description

The function java-array-element-type returns the element type of object if object is a Java array:

• For primitive types, result is a keyword from the table in Types and conversion between Lisp and Java.
• If the array is multi-dimensional, result is :array.
• If the array element type is java.lang.Object, result is :object.
• If the array element type is java.lang.String, result is :string.
• For other arrays result is t.

If object is some other type of Java object, java-array-element-type returns nil. Otherwise it signals an error.

Notes

1. java-array-element-type is designed to be fast, so it can be used as a predicate to test whether a Java object is an array, and also to check whether some specific operations are applicable to it.
2. If you want to check whether the array is primitive or not, use java-primitive-array-element-type or java-object-array-element-type instead.

See also

java-primitive-array-element-type
java-object-array-element-type
Working with Java arrays