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* Copyright (c) 1998, 2017, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |
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* DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. |
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* This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it |
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* published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this |
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* particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided |
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* by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code. |
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* This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT |
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* ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or |
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* FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License |
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* version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that |
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* accompanied this code). |
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* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version |
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* 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, |
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* Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. |
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* Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA |
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* or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any |
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* questions. |
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package com.sun.jdi; |
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/** |
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* Provides access to the class of an array and the type of |
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* its components in the target VM. |
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* @see ArrayReference |
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* |
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* @author Robert Field |
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* @author Gordon Hirsch |
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* @author James McIlree |
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* @since 1.3 |
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*/ |
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public interface ArrayType extends ReferenceType { |
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/** |
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* Creates a new instance of this array class in the target VM. |
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* The array is created with the given length and each component |
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* is initialized to is standard default value. |
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* |
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* @param length the number of components in the new array |
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* @return the newly created {@link ArrayReference} mirroring |
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* the new object in the target VM. |
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* |
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* @throws VMCannotBeModifiedException if the VirtualMachine is read-only - see {@link VirtualMachine#canBeModified()}. |
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*/ |
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ArrayReference newInstance(int length); |
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/** |
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* Gets the JNI signature of the components of this |
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* array class. The signature |
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* describes the declared type of the components. If the components |
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* are objects, their actual type in a particular run-time context |
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* may be a subclass of the declared class. |
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* |
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* @return a string containing the JNI signature of array components. |
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*/ |
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String componentSignature(); |
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/** |
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* Returns a text representation of the component |
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* type of this array. |
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* |
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* @return a text representation of the component type. |
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*/ |
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String componentTypeName(); |
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/** |
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* Returns the component type of this array, |
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* as specified in the array declaration. |
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* <P> |
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* Note: The component type of a array will always be |
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* created or loaded before the array - see |
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* <cite>The Java™ Virtual Machine Specification</cite>, |
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* section 5.3.3 - Creating Array Classes. |
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* However, although the component type will be loaded it may |
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* not yet be prepared, in which case the type will be returned |
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* but attempts to perform some operations on the returned type |
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* (e.g. {@link ReferenceType#fields() fields()}) will throw |
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* a {@link ClassNotPreparedException}. |
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* Use {@link ReferenceType#isPrepared()} to determine if |
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* a reference type is prepared. |
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* @see Type |
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* @see Field#type() Field.type() - for usage examples |
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* @return the {@link Type} of this array's components. |
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*/ |
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Type componentType() throws ClassNotLoadedException; |
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} |