WatchEvent.Kind (Java Platform SE 8 ) (original) (raw)

• Enclosing interface:
  WatchEvent<T>

public static interface WatchEvent.Kind
An event kind, for the purposes of identification.
Since:
1.7
See Also:
StandardWatchEventKinds

• • Method Summary

  All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods

  Modifier and Type	Method	Description
  String	name()	Returns the name of the event kind.
  Class<T>	type()	Returns the type of the context value.

• • Method Detail

     * #### name  
     [String](../../../java/lang/String.html "class in java.lang") name()  
     Returns the name of the event kind.  
     Returns:  
     the name of the event kind  
     * #### type  
     [Class](../../../java/lang/Class.html "class in java.lang")<[T](../../../java/nio/file/WatchEvent.Kind.html "type parameter in WatchEvent.Kind")> type()  
     Returns the type of the [context](../../../java/nio/file/WatchEvent.html#context--) value.  
     Returns:  
     the type of the context value

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