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package net.wuffies.japi;

/**
 * ClassWrapper and CallWrapper implement this interface, because they can both have type parameters. Constructors and fields cannot.
 */
public interface GenericWrapper extends Wrapper {
  /**
   * For generic classes and generic static methods, returns an array of TypeParam objects whose associatedWrappers are
   * set to this object. For constructors, non-generic methods and non-generic classes, returns null.
   * Note that for nonstatic inner classes, the type parameters of the containing class should *not* be included.
   * When these are needed they can be accessed by getContainingWrapper().getTypeParams().
   */
  TypeParam[] getTypeParams();

  /**
   * This returns the containing wrapper (to be able to get at the type parameters).
   * This can be both a ClassWrapper and CallWrapper. Anonymous classes are contained in a CallWrapper.
   */
  GenericWrapper getContainingWrapper();
}
