Class Constant

java.lang.Object

org.aspectj.apache.bcel.classfile.Constant

All Implemented Interfaces:

Cloneable, Node

Direct Known Subclasses:

ConstantClass, ConstantCP, ConstantDouble, ConstantDynamic, ConstantFloat, ConstantInteger, ConstantInvokeDynamic, ConstantLong, ConstantMethodHandle, ConstantMethodType, ConstantModule, ConstantNameAndType, ConstantPackage, ConstantString, ConstantUtf8

public abstract class Constant
extends Object
implements Cloneable, Node

Abstract superclass for classes to represent the different constant types in the constant pool of a class file. The classes keep closely to the JVM specification.

Version:

$Id: Constant.java,v 1.5 2009/09/10 15:35:04 aclement Exp $

Author:

M. Dahm

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
protected byte	tag

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
abstract void	accept(ClassVisitor v)
Object	clone()
Constant	copy()
abstract void	dump(DataOutputStream dataOutputStream)
final byte	getTag()
abstract Object	getValue()
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class Object

equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Details

tag

protected byte tag

Method Details

getTag

public final byte getTag()

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object

accept

public abstract void accept(ClassVisitor v)

Specified by:

accept in interface Node

dump

public abstract void dump(DataOutputStream dataOutputStream)
                   throws IOException

Throws:

IOException

getValue

public abstract Object getValue()

copy

public Constant copy()

clone

public Object clone()
             throws CloneNotSupportedException

Overrides:

clone in class Object

Throws:

CloneNotSupportedException