public String getType() {
        return type;
    }
Gets this ShapeLink's type.
The type is the type of the artifact component. This value MUST correspond to one of the types defined
in the /definitions/types property of the trace file.

@return this ShapeLink's type
smithy-codegen-core/src/main/java/software/amazon/smithy/codegen/core/trace/ShapeLink.java