ContainerElementTypeDescriptor (Jakarta EE Platform API)

All Superinterfaces:

CascadableDescriptor, ContainerDescriptor, ElementDescriptor
```
public interface ContainerElementTypeDescriptor
extends ElementDescriptor, CascadableDescriptor, ContainerDescriptor
```
Describes a validated container element type, e.g. the element type of List if it hosts at least one constraint or is marked with Valid.

Since:

2.0

Author:

Guillaume Smet

Nested Class Summary
- Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface jakarta.validation.metadata.ElementDescriptor
  ElementDescriptor.ConstraintFinder

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`Class<?>`	`getContainerClass()`	Returns the container class hosting this container element type.
`Integer`	`getTypeArgumentIndex()`	Returns the index of the type argument corresponding to this container element type.

Methods inherited from interface jakarta.validation.metadata.CascadableDescriptor
getGroupConversions, isCascaded

Methods inherited from interface jakarta.validation.metadata.ContainerDescriptor
getConstrainedContainerElementTypes

Methods inherited from interface jakarta.validation.metadata.ElementDescriptor
findConstraints, getConstraintDescriptors, getElementClass, hasConstraints

- Method Detail
  - getTypeArgumentIndex
```
Integer getTypeArgumentIndex()
```
    Returns the index of the type argument corresponding to this container element type.
    
    Returns:
    
    the index of the type argument corresponding to this container element type
  - getContainerClass
```
Class<?> getContainerClass()
```
    Returns the container class hosting this container element type.
    
    Returns:
    
    the container class hosting this container element type