AnyExternalObject

All Superinterfaces:

GroundedValue, Item, Sequence

All Known Implementing Classes:

Bindery.FailureValue, MemoFunction.NodeSurrogate, ObjectValue, Tuple
```
public interface AnyExternalObject
extends Item
```
An external object is a fourth kind of Item (after nodes, atomic values, and functions): it acts as a wrapper for a Java object (or, in C#, a .NET object).
This interface deliberately does not use generics, enabling it to be used in the same way both in Java and C#.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`ItemType`	`getItemType(TypeHierarchy th)`	Get the item type of the object
`java.lang.Object`	`getWrappedObject()`	Get the Java (or C#) object that is wrapped by this `AnyExternalObject`

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.saxon.om.GroundedValue
asIterable, concatenate, containsNode, effectiveBooleanValue, materialize

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.saxon.om.Item
atomize, getGenre, getLength, getStringValue, getUnicodeStringValue, head, isStreamed, itemAt, iterate, reduce, subsequence, toShortString

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.saxon.om.Sequence
makeRepeatable

- Method Detail
  - getWrappedObject
```
java.lang.Object getWrappedObject()
```
    Get the Java (or C#) object that is wrapped by this AnyExternalObject
    
    Returns:
    
    the wrapped object
  - getItemType
```
ItemType getItemType(TypeHierarchy th)
```
    Get the item type of the object
    
    Parameters:
    
    th - the type hierarchy
    
    Returns:
    
    the item type