public class TypeClassInfo
extends Object
Object to carry information for an Aegis type,
such as that from an XML mapping file.
Note that this class has a misleading name. It is used both for
type information that corresponds to a type, and also for parameters
of methods and elements of beans. When describing a top-level type,
minOccurs and maxOccurs are not meaningful. Aegis does not have a
very clear model of a 'type', in the sense of an AegisType object
corresponding to some particular XML Schema type, in isolation
from the mapping system.
Historically, Aegis talked about Java types as Class. However,
we want to be able to keep track, distinctly, of un-erased
generics. That requires java.lang.reflect.Type.
Nillable is only used for parameters.
It might be that the code could be deconfused by
using the nillable property in here for the non-parameters cases
that look at minOccurs and maxOccurs.
Historically, the code for dealing with nillable was very confused,
and so the support here is a bit ginger, until someone figures out how
to sort things out. Thus the three-valued support instead
of a plain boolean.