meta.package class

Package: meta
Superclasses: meta.MetaData

Describe MATLAB package

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Description

The meta.package class contains information about MATLAB® packages. All properties are read-only.

Packages can contain classes, functions, and other packages.

The meta.package class is a handle class.

Class Attributes

Sealed
true
Abstract
true
RestrictsSubclassing
true

For information on class attributes, see Class Attributes.

Creation

You cannot instantiate a meta.package object directly. Obtain a meta.package object from the meta.class ContainingPackage property, which contains a meta.package object, or an empty object, if the class is not in a package.

Properties

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Name of the package, returned as a character vector.

Data Types: char

Not used

Data Types: char

Not used

Data Types: char

List of classes that are scoped to this package, returned as an array of meta.class objects.

Data Types: meta.class

List of functions that are scoped to this package, returned as an array of function handles.

Data Types: function_handle

List of packages that are scoped to this package, returned as an array of meta.package objects.

Data Types: meta.package

Package that contains this package, returned as a meta.package object. If this package is not contained in another package, the meta.package object is empty.

Data Types: meta.package

Methods

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Examples

Find Names of Classes in Package

Use the meta.package.fromName method to find the names of the classes contained in the matlab.mixin package. Access the meta.class objects in the ClassList property to display a list of the class names.

disp(string({meta.package.fromName('matlab.mixin').ClassList.Name})')

See Also

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Topics

Introduced in R2008a

MATLAB Documentation

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