RecordComponentElement (Java SE 21 & JDK 21)
Description: declaration: module: java.compiler, package: javax.lang.model.element, interface: RecordComponentElement
Keywords: javax.lang.model.element.RecordComponentElement interface

Module java.compiler
Package javax.lang.model.element

# Interface RecordComponentElement

All Superinterfaces:
  `AnnotatedConstruct`, `Element`

public interface RecordComponentElement extends Element
Represents a record component.

See Java Language Specification:
  8.10.1 Record Components
Since:
  16

- ## Method Summary

  Modifier and Type
  Method
  Description
  `ExecutableElement`
  `getAccessor()`
  Returns the executable element for the accessor associated with the given record component.
  `Element`
  `getEnclosingElement()`
  Returns the enclosing element of this record component.
  `Name`
  `getSimpleName()`
  Returns the simple name of this record component.

  ### Methods declared in interface javax.lang.model.element.Element

  `accept, asType, equals, getAnnotation, getAnnotationMirrors, getAnnotationsByType, getEnclosedElements, getKind, getModifiers, hashCode`

- ## Method Details

  - ### getEnclosingElement

    Element getEnclosingElement()
    Returns the enclosing element of this record component. The enclosing element of a record component is the record class declaring the record component.
    Specified by:
      `getEnclosingElement` in interface `Element`
    Returns:
      the enclosing element of this record component
    See Also:
      - `Elements.getPackageOf(javax.lang.model.element.Element)`

  - ### getSimpleName

    Name getSimpleName()
    Returns the simple name of this record component.

    The name of each record component must be distinct from the names of all other record components of the same record.

    Specified by:
      `getSimpleName` in interface `Element`
    Returns:
      the simple name of this record component
    See Java Language Specification:
      6.2 Names and Identifiers
    See Also:
      - `PackageElement.getSimpleName()`
      - `ExecutableElement.getSimpleName()`
      - `TypeElement.getSimpleName()`
      - `VariableElement.getSimpleName()`
      - `ModuleElement.getSimpleName()`
      - `getSimpleName()`

  - ### getAccessor

    ExecutableElement getAccessor()
    Returns the executable element for the accessor associated with the given record component.
    Returns:
      the record component accessor.