Represents a class or interface program element. Provides access to information about the type and its members. Note that an enum type is a kind of class and an annotation type is a kind of interface.
While a TypeElement represents a class or interface
element, a DeclaredType represents a class
or interface type, the latter being a use
(or invocation) of the former.
The distinction is most apparent with generic types,
for which a single element can define a whole
family of types. For example, the element
java.util.Set corresponds to the parameterized types
java.util.Set<String> and java.util.Set<Number>
(and many others), and to the raw type java.util.Set.
Each method of this interface that returns a list of elements will return them in the order that is natural for the underlying source of program information. For example, if the underlying source of information is Java source code, then the elements will be returned in source code order.
extends
DeclaredType