Term symbols have their names of type TermName.
Term symbols have their names of type TermName.
Backing field for an accessor method, NoSymbol for all other term symbols.
Backing field for an accessor method, NoSymbol for all other term symbols.
Returns all symbols overriden by this symbol.
Returns all symbols overriden by this symbol.
The overloaded alternatives of this symbol
The overloaded alternatives of this symbol
A list of annotations attached to this Symbol.
A list of annotations attached to this Symbol.
Source file if this symbol is created during this compilation run, or a class file if this symbol is loaded from a *.
Source file if this symbol is created during this compilation run, or a class file if this symbol is loaded from a *.class or *.jar.
The return type is scala.reflect.io.AbstractFile, which belongs to an experimental part of Scala reflection.
It should not be used unless you know what you are doing. In subsequent releases, this API will be refined
and exposed as a part of scala.reflect.api.
For a class: the module or case class factory with the same name in the same package.
For a class: the module or case class factory with the same name in the same package. For a module: the class with the same name in the same package. For all others: NoSymbol
Filters the underlying alternatives (or a single-element list composed of the symbol itself if the symbol is not overloaded).
Filters the underlying alternatives (or a single-element list composed of the symbol itself if the symbol is not overloaded). Returns an overloaded symbol is there are multiple matches. Returns a NoSymbol if there are no matches.
The encoded full path name of this symbol, where outer names and inner names are separated by periods.
The encoded full path name of this symbol, where outer names and inner names are separated by periods.
Getter method for a backing field of a val or a val, NoSymbol for all other term symbols.
Getter method for a backing field of a val or a val, NoSymbol for all other term symbols.
Is this symbol labelled as "abstract override"?
Is this symbol labelled as "abstract override"?
Does this symbol represent a getter or a setter?
Does this symbol represent a getter or a setter?
Does this symbol represent a by-name parameter?
Does this symbol represent a by-name parameter?
Does this symbol represent a field of a case class that corresponds to a parameter in the first parameter list of the primary constructor of that class?
Does this symbol represent a field of a case class that corresponds to a parameter in the first parameter list of the primary constructor of that class?
Does this method represent a constructor?
Does this method represent a constructor?
If owner is a class, then this is a vanilla JVM constructor.
If owner is a trait, then this is a mixin constructor.
Does this symbol or its underlying type represent a typechecking error?
Does this symbol or its underlying type represent a typechecking error?
Is this symbol final?
Is this symbol final?
Does this symbol represent a getter of a field?
If yes, isMethod is also guaranteed to be true.
Does this symbol represent a getter of a field?
If yes, isMethod is also guaranteed to be true.
Does this symbol represent an implementation artifact that isn't meant for public use? Examples of such artifacts are erasure bridges and outer fields.
Does this symbol represent an implementation artifact that isn't meant for public use? Examples of such artifacts are erasure bridges and outer fields.
Does this symbol represent an implicit value, definition, class or parameter?
Does this symbol represent an implicit value, definition, class or parameter?
Is this symbol defined by Java?
Is this symbol defined by Java?
Does this symbol represent a lazy value?
Does this symbol represent a lazy value?
Does this symbol represent a local declaration or definition?
Does this symbol represent a local declaration or definition?
If yes, either isPrivate or isProtected are guaranteed to be true.
Local symbols can only be accessed from the same object instance.
If yes, privateWithin might tell more about this symbol's visibility scope.
Is this symbol a macro?
Is this symbol a macro?
Does this symbol represent an overloaded method?
If yes, isMethod is false, and the list of the enclosed alternatives can be found out via alternatives.
Does this symbol represent an overloaded method?
If yes, isMethod is false, and the list of the enclosed alternatives can be found out via alternatives.
Is this symbol overriding something?
Is this symbol overriding something?
Does this symbol represent the definition of a package?
If yes, isTerm is also guaranteed to be true.
Does this symbol represent the definition of a package?
If yes, isTerm is also guaranteed to be true.
Does this symbol represent a package class?
If yes, isClass is also guaranteed to be true.
Does this symbol represent a package class?
If yes, isClass is also guaranteed to be true.
Does this symbol represent a field of a class that was generated from a parameter of that class?
Does this symbol represent a field of a class that was generated from a parameter of that class?
Does this symbol represent a parameter with a default value?
Does this symbol represent a parameter with a default value?
Is this symbol a parameter (either a method parameter or a type parameter)?
Is this symbol a parameter (either a method parameter or a type parameter)?
Does this symbol denote the primary constructor of its enclosing class?
Does this symbol denote the primary constructor of its enclosing class?
Does this symbol represent a private declaration or definition?
If yes, privateWithin might tell more about this symbol's visibility scope.
Does this symbol represent a private declaration or definition?
If yes, privateWithin might tell more about this symbol's visibility scope.
Does this symbol represent a protected declaration or definition?
If yes, privateWithin might tell more about this symbol's visibility scope.
Does this symbol represent a protected declaration or definition?
If yes, privateWithin might tell more about this symbol's visibility scope.
Does this symbol represent a public declaration or definition?
Does this symbol represent a public declaration or definition?
Does this symbol represent a setter of a field?
If yes, isMethod is also guaranteed to be true.
Does this symbol represent a setter of a field?
If yes, isMethod is also guaranteed to be true.
Is this symbol a specialized type parameter or a generated specialized member?
Is this symbol a specialized type parameter or a generated specialized member?
Does this symbol denote a stable value?
Does this symbol denote a stable value?
Is this symbol static (i.
Is this symbol static (i.e. with no outer instance)? Q: When exactly is a sym marked as STATIC? A: If it's a member of a toplevel object, or of an object contained in a toplevel object, or any number of levels deep. http://groups.google.com/group/scala-internals/browse_thread/thread/d385bcd60b08faf6
Does this symbol represent a synthetic (i.
Does this symbol represent a synthetic (i.e. a compiler-generated) entity? Examples of synthetic entities are accessors for vals and vars or mixin constructors in trait implementation classes.
Is this symbol introduced as val?
Is this symbol introduced as val?
Is this symbol introduced as var?
Is this symbol introduced as var?
Does this method support variable length argument lists?
Does this method support variable length argument lists?
If this is a NoSymbol, returns NoSymbol, otherwise
returns the result of applying f to this symbol.
If this is a NoSymbol, returns NoSymbol, otherwise
returns the result of applying f to this symbol.
The name of the symbol as a member of the Name type.
The name of the symbol as a member of the Name type.
Provides an alternate if symbol is a NoSymbol.
Provides an alternate if symbol is a NoSymbol.
The owner of this symbol.
The owner of this symbol. This is the symbol
that directly contains the current symbol's definition.
The NoSymbol symbol does not have an owner, and calling this method
on one causes an internal error.
The owner of the Scala root class scala.reflect.api.Mirror.RootClass
and the Scala root object scala.reflect.api.Mirror.RootPackage is NoSymbol.
Every other symbol has a chain of owners that ends in
scala.reflect.api.Mirror.RootClass.
All parameter lists of the method.
All parameter lists of the method. The name ending with "ss" indicates that the result type is a list of lists.
Can be used to distinguish nullary methods and methods with empty parameter lists.
For a nullary method, returns the empty list (i.e. List()).
For a method with an empty parameter list, returns a list that contains the empty list (i.e. List(List())).
Set when symbol has a modifier of the form private[X], NoSymbol otherwise.
Set when symbol has a modifier of the form private[X], NoSymbol otherwise.
Access level encoding: there are three scala flags (PRIVATE, PROTECTED, and LOCAL) which combine with value privateWithin (the "foo" in private[foo]) to define from where an entity can be accessed. The meanings are as follows:
PRIVATE access restricted to class only. PROTECTED access restricted to class and subclasses only. LOCAL can only be set in conjunction with PRIVATE or PROTECTED. Further restricts access to the same object instance.
In addition, privateWithin can be used to set a visibility barrier. When set, everything contained in the named enclosing package or class has access. It is incompatible with PRIVATE or LOCAL, but is additive with PROTECTED (i.e. if either the flags or privateWithin allow access, then it is allowed.)
The java access levels translate as follows:
java private: isPrivate && (privateWithin == NoSymbol) java package: !isPrivate && !isProtected && (privateWithin == enclosingPackage) java protected: isProtected && (privateWithin == enclosingPackage) java public: !isPrivate && !isProtected && (privateWithin == NoSymbol)
The return type of the method
The return type of the method
Setter method for a backing field of a val or a val, NoSymbol for all other term symbols.
Setter method for a backing field of a val or a val, NoSymbol for all other term symbols.
Does the same as filter, but crashes if there are multiple matches.
Does the same as filter, but crashes if there are multiple matches.
For a polymorphic method, its type parameters, the empty list for all other methods
For a polymorphic method, its type parameters, the empty list for all other methods
The type signature of this symbol.
The type signature of this symbol.
This method always returns signatures in the most generic way possible, even if the underlying symbol is obtained from an
instantiation of a generic type. For example, signature
of the method def map[B](f: (A) ⇒ B): List[B], which refers to the type parameter A of the declaring class List[A],
will always feature A, regardless of whether map is loaded from the List[_] or from List[Int]. To get a signature
with type parameters appropriately instantiated, one should use typeSignatureIn.
The type signature of this symbol seen as a member of given type site.
The type signature of this symbol seen as a member of given type site.
Test two objects for inequality.
Test two objects for inequality.
true if !(this == that), false otherwise.
Equivalent to x.hashCode except for boxed numeric types and null.
Equivalent to x.hashCode except for boxed numeric types and null.
For numerics, it returns a hash value which is consistent
with value equality: if two value type instances compare
as true, then ## will produce the same hash value for each
of them.
For null returns a hashcode where null.hashCode throws a
NullPointerException.
a hash value consistent with ==
Test two objects for equality.
Test two objects for equality.
The expression x == that is equivalent to if (x eq null) that eq null else x.equals(that).
true if the receiver object is equivalent to the argument; false otherwise.
This symbol cast to a ClassSymbol representing a class or trait.
This symbol cast to a ClassSymbol representing a class or trait.
if isClass is false.
This symbol cast to a free term symbol.
This symbol cast to a free term symbol.
if isFreeTerm is false.
This symbol cast to a free type symbol.
This symbol cast to a free type symbol.
if isFreeType is false.
Cast the receiver object to be of type T0.
Cast the receiver object to be of type T0.
Note that the success of a cast at runtime is modulo Scala's erasure semantics.
Therefore the expression 1.asInstanceOf[String] will throw a ClassCastException at
runtime, while the expression List(1).asInstanceOf[List[String]] will not.
In the latter example, because the type argument is erased as part of compilation it is
not possible to check whether the contents of the list are of the requested type.
the receiver object.
if the receiver object is not an instance of the erasure of type T0.
This symbol cast to a MethodSymbol.
This symbol cast to a MethodSymbol.
if isMethod is false.
This symbol cast to a ModuleSymbol defined by an object definition.
This symbol cast to a ModuleSymbol defined by an object definition.
if isModule is false.
This symbol cast to a TermSymbol.
This symbol cast to a TermSymbol.
if isTerm is false.
This symbol cast to a TypeSymbol.
This symbol cast to a TypeSymbol.
if isType is false.
Create a copy of the receiver object.
Tests whether the argument (arg0) is a reference to the receiver object (this).
Tests whether the argument (arg0) is a reference to the receiver object (this).
The eq method implements an equivalence relation on
non-null instances of AnyRef, and has three additional properties:
x and y of type AnyRef, multiple invocations of
x.eq(y) consistently returns true or consistently returns false.x of type AnyRef, x.eq(null) and null.eq(x) returns false.null.eq(null) returns true. When overriding the equals or hashCode methods, it is important to ensure that their behavior is
consistent with reference equality. Therefore, if two objects are references to each other (o1 eq o2), they
should be equal to each other (o1 == o2) and they should hash to the same value (o1.hashCode == o2.hashCode).
true if the argument is a reference to the receiver object; false otherwise.
The equality method for reference types.
Called by the garbage collector on the receiver object when there are no more references to the object.
Called by the garbage collector on the receiver object when there are no more references to the object.
The details of when and if the finalize method is invoked, as
well as the interaction between finalize and non-local returns
and exceptions, are all platform dependent.
A representation that corresponds to the dynamic class of the receiver object.
A representation that corresponds to the dynamic class of the receiver object.
The nature of the representation is platform dependent.
a representation that corresponds to the dynamic class of the receiver object.
not specified by SLS as a member of AnyRef
The hashCode method for reference types.
Does this symbol represent the definition of a class or trait?
If yes, isType is also guaranteed to be true.
Does this symbol represent the definition of a class or trait?
If yes, isType is also guaranteed to be true.
Does this symbol represent a free term captured by reification?
If yes, isTerm is also guaranteed to be true.
Does this symbol represent a free term captured by reification?
If yes, isTerm is also guaranteed to be true.
Does this symbol represent a free type captured by reification?
If yes, isType is also guaranteed to be true.
Does this symbol represent a free type captured by reification?
If yes, isType is also guaranteed to be true.
Test whether the dynamic type of the receiver object is T0.
Test whether the dynamic type of the receiver object is T0.
Note that the result of the test is modulo Scala's erasure semantics.
Therefore the expression 1.isInstanceOf[String] will return false, while the
expression List(1).isInstanceOf[List[String]] will return true.
In the latter example, because the type argument is erased as part of compilation it is
not possible to check whether the contents of the list are of the specified type.
true if the receiver object is an instance of erasure of type T0; false otherwise.
Does this symbol represent the definition of a method?
If yes, isTerm is also guaranteed to be true.
Does this symbol represent the definition of a method?
If yes, isTerm is also guaranteed to be true.
Does this symbol represent the definition of a module (i.
Does this symbol represent the definition of a module (i.e. it
results from an object definition?).
If yes, isTerm is also guaranteed to be true.
Does this symbol represent the definition of a class implicitly associated with an object definition (module class in scala compiler parlance).
Does this symbol represent the definition of a class implicitly associated
with an object definition (module class in scala compiler parlance).
If yes, isType is also guaranteed to be true.
Used to provide a better error message for asMethod
Used to provide a better error message for asMethod
Does this symbol represent the definition of a term? Note that every symbol is either a term or a type.
Does this symbol represent the definition of a term?
Note that every symbol is either a term or a type.
So for every symbol sym (except for NoSymbol),
either sym.isTerm is true or sym.isTerm is true.
Does this symbol represent the definition of a type? Note that every symbol is either a term or a type.
Does this symbol represent the definition of a type?
Note that every symbol is either a term or a type.
So for every symbol sym (except for NoSymbol),
either sym.isTerm is true or sym.isType is true.
Equivalent to !(this eq that).
Equivalent to !(this eq that).
true if the argument is not a reference to the receiver object; false otherwise.
Wakes up a single thread that is waiting on the receiver object's monitor.
Wakes up a single thread that is waiting on the receiver object's monitor.
not specified by SLS as a member of AnyRef
Wakes up all threads that are waiting on the receiver object's monitor.
Wakes up all threads that are waiting on the receiver object's monitor.
not specified by SLS as a member of AnyRef
Creates a String representation of this object.
Creates a String representation of this object. The default representation is platform dependent. On the java platform it is the concatenation of the class name, "@", and the object's hashcode in hexadecimal.
a String representation of the object.
These methods construct new symbols owned by the current symbol.
These methods enable collections-like operations on symbols.
The type of method symbols representing def declarations.