Description Christopher Daly 2006-01-22 05:44:59 EST

I'm observing that for binary types and methods the IMethod.getSignature() returns something like this:

  (Ljava/lang/String;)Ljava/lang/reflect/Field;

While IMethod.getParameterTypes() returns a String[] with the signatures like this:

  Ljava.lang.String;

Note '/' in the first case and '.' in the second.  I regarded this as merely odd, because according to the documentation in the Signature class it seems both forms are valid.

However when I go searching for methods using IType.getMethod(String,String[]) I notice that it only accepts signatures with '.'.  If you call it with '/' in the signatures you will get back an IMethod for which IMethod.exists() returns false.

So is this a bug, or am I misunderstanding something about the use of '.' and '/' in signatures?