checkNumericCompatibility
public static Operator.DescriptorComparison checkNumericCompatibility(java.lang.String leftDeclaredDescriptor,
java.lang.String rightDeclaredDescriptor,
java.lang.String leftActualDescriptor,
java.lang.String rightActualDescriptor)
Returns an object that indicates whether the input descriptors are compatible. A declared descriptor
is what could statically be determined (e.g. from looking at the return value of a property accessor
method) whilst an actual descriptor is the type of an actual object that was returned, which may differ.
For generic types with unbound type variables the declared descriptor discovered may be 'Object' but
from the actual descriptor it is possible to observe that the objects are really numeric values (e.g.
ints).
- Parameters:
leftDeclaredDescriptor
- the statically determinable left descriptor
rightDeclaredDescriptor
- the statically determinable right descriptor
leftActualDescriptor
- the dynamic/runtime left object descriptor
rightActualDescriptor
- the dynamic/runtime right object descriptor
- Returns:
- a DescriptorComparison object indicating the type of compatibility, if any