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Return a null‐terminated string containing the exported name for the specified `TYPE`, or a 0 pointer if `TYPE` does not export a name. A type exports a name by overloading the function `bdlat_TypeName_className(const TYPE&)` in TYPE's namespace. The default implementation of `bdlat_TypeName_className` will automatically return the `CLASS_NAME` value for types that have the `bdlat_TypeTraitBasicChoice`, `bdlat_TypeTraitBasicSequence`, `bdlat_TypeTraitBasicCustomizedType`, or `bdlat_TypeTraitBasicEnumeration` trait (i.e., types generated using `bas_codegen.pl`).

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlat_typename.h>`

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template<class TYPE>
static
char const*
className(TYPE const& object);
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