Specializable (Javacord 3.5.0 (api))

Type Parameters:

S - The base type of which subclasses are eligible to be cast.

All Known Subinterfaces:

ActionRow, ApplicationCommand, AudioSource, AudioSourceBaseDelegate, BufferableAudioSource, Button, Categorizable, Channel, ChannelCategory, ChannelSpecialization, ContextMenu, CustomEmoji, DownloadableAudioSource, Emoji, HighLevelComponent, Interaction, KnownCustomEmoji, LowLevelComponent, MessageComponentInteraction, MessageContextMenu, PauseableAudioSource, PrivateChannel, RegularServerChannel, SeekableAudioSource, SelectMenu, SelectMenuInteraction, ServerChannel, ServerForumChannel, ServerStageVoiceChannel, ServerTextChannel, ServerThreadChannel, ServerVoiceChannel, SlashCommand, TextChannel, TextInput, UnknownRegularServerChannel, UnknownServerChannel, UserContextMenu, VoiceChannel

All Known Implementing Classes:

AudioSourceBase, SilentAudioSource
```
public interface Specializable<S>
```
An object that may be specialized further and recast as a subclass.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Default Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`default <T extends S> java.util.Optional<T>`	`as(java.lang.Class<T> type)`	Get this instance as a desired subtype.

- Method Detail
  - as
```
default <T extends S> java.util.Optional<T> as(java.lang.Class<T> type)
```
    Get this instance as a desired subtype.
    If the instance is not castable to the specified type, the Optional will be empty.
    
    Type Parameters:
    
    T - The desired type.
    
    Parameters:
    
    type - The type as which to obtain this instance.
    
    Returns:
    
    Returns an Optional of this instance if it could be cast, otherwise an empty result.
    
    Throws:
    
    java.lang.NullPointerException - If the type is null.