What is a type descriptor?

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What is a type descriptor?

It is a unique string that represents the class. For reference types, you can find out the type descriptor of a class by calling getClass on an instance and getName. Primitive types have "hard-coded" type descriptors according to the following table:

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The type descriptor of an array is [ for each dimension. So an array of int[][] will have a type descriptor [[I.

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Author of answer: Joris Van den Bogaert

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