FWIW, I'm surprised that these methods don't exist. I've not hit the problem myself but I know I'd curse if I discovered their absence.
Stephen On 21 Sep 2013 08:35, "Marcin Wiśnicki" <mwisni...@gmail.com> wrote: > Third party serialization libraries and other tools need to know the > type of EnumSet elementType. Currently this field is package-private > and said libraries have to resort to non-portable reflection hacks. > > Please add EnumSet#getElementType() and EnumMap#getKeyType() methods. > > I've submitted this request to bugs.sun.com last month, where it > received Bug Id: 9006352. There was no further communication and that > bug is still not visible which doesn't surprise me as I've never had > any luck with bugs.sun.com even when submitting actual bug :( > > PS. Please keep me CC'ed. >
