How do I check what type I am dealing with?

Simply said: I am looking for a Haxe equivalent for Java's instanceof.

This is my specific problem:

I have a class Tile which contains a field content of type Unit and a function get_content() that returns the currently stored object. Unit is an interface which is implemented in 3 classes Player, Monster and Item. Also, i have more specific monsters (like Dragon or Beast) and I defined each in their own class. Each of them extends the Monster class.

Now I want to execute different code depending on what type the object returned by tile.get_content() is. For example if it is any object that inherits from the Monster class myFunction1() is called and if it is anything that extends the Item class myFunction2() is called.

How would I achieve this behaviour?

Thank you in advance.

Edit:

I found that if (Type.typeof(tile.get_content()) == Monster) seems to be the way to go, but does this return true for types that inherit from the Monster class aswell or only for objects of the generic class Monster?

As suggested by George, Std.isOfType() should be used.

To answer my own second question from the edit: It does return true for objects of classes which inherit from the specified class.

The full code for my specific example would therefore be

if (Std.isOfType(tile.get_content(), Monster)) {
   myFunction1();
} else if (Std.isOfType(tile.get_content(), Item)) {
   myFunction2();
}

there's two:

if (tile.get_content() is Monster)
//and
if (Std.isOfType(tile.get_content(), Monster))