Bug 156871 - API to create ITypeBinding from type name
Summary: API to create ITypeBinding from type name
Status: NEW
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Product: JDT
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Core (show other bugs)
Version: 3.3   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: JDT-Core-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2006-09-11 09:51 EDT by Markus Keller CLA
Modified: 2006-09-11 09:51 EDT (History)
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Description Markus Keller CLA 2006-09-11 09:51:10 EDT 
3.2

As discussed on the JDT summit:

- find and create bindings in existing binding environments
    * find type binding by name or key

The API would be a generalization of AST#resolveWellKnownType(String), with the difference that type bindings can be resolved for all types on the classpath. The best home for the API would be the BindingEnvironment (see bug 150657).

The method could be

    ITypeBinding resolveTypeBinding(String name)

and should work for primitive types, classes, interfaces, enums, and annotations. For generic types, the method should resolve to the type declaration (isGenericType() == true).