com.fasterxml.jackson.core.type
Date: 2016-12-03

# Package com.fasterxml.jackson.core.type

Contains classes needed for type introspection, mostly used by data binding functionality.

See: Description

- Class Summary
  Class | Description
  --- | ---
  ResolvedType | Type abstraction that represents Java type that has been resolved (i.e.
  TypeReference<T> | This generic abstract class is used for obtaining full generics type information by sub-classing; it must be converted to `ResolvedType` implementation (implemented by `JavaType` from "databind" bundle) to be used.

## Package com.fasterxml.jackson.core.type Description

Contains classes needed for type introspection, mostly used by data binding functionality. Most of this functionality is needed to properly handled generic types, and to simplify and unify processing of things Jackson needs to determine how contained types (of `Collection` and `Map` classes) are to be handled.