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java.lang.reflect

## Interface AnnotatedType

- All Superinterfaces:
    AnnotatedElement
  All Known Subinterfaces:
    AnnotatedArrayType, AnnotatedParameterizedType, AnnotatedTypeVariable, AnnotatedWildcardType

      public interface AnnotatedType
      extends AnnotatedElement

  `AnnotatedType` represents the potentially annotated use of a type in the program currently running in this VM. The use may be of any type in the Java programming language, including an array type, a parameterized type, a type variable, or a wildcard type.
  Since:
    1.8

- - ### Method Summary

    All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
    Modifier and Type | Method | Description
    --- | --- | ---
    `Type` | `getType()` | Returns the underlying type that this annotated type represents.

    - ### Methods inherited from interface java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedElement

      `getAnnotation, getAnnotations, getAnnotationsByType, getDeclaredAnnotation, getDeclaredAnnotations, getDeclaredAnnotationsByType, isAnnotationPresent`

- - ### Method Detail

    - #### getType

          Type getType()

      Returns the underlying type that this annotated type represents.
      Returns:
        the type this annotated type represents

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