org.objectweb.asm.attrs

Class RuntimeVisibleAnnotations

Known Direct Subclasses:
ASMRuntimeVisibleAnnotations

public class RuntimeVisibleAnnotations
extends Attribute

The RuntimeVisibleAnnotations attribute is a variable length attribute in the attributes table of the ClassFile, field_info, and method_info structures. The RuntimeVisibleAnnotations attribute records runtime-visible Java programming language annotations on the corresponding class, method, or field. Each ClassFile, field_info, and method_info structure may contain at most one RuntimeVisibleAnnotations attribute, which records all the runtime-visible Java programming language annotations on the corresponding program element. The JVM must make these annotations available so they can be returned by the appropriate reflective APIs.

The RuntimeVisibleAnnotations attribute has the following format:

   RuntimeVisibleAnnotations_attribute {
     u2 attribute_name_index;
     u4 attribute_length;
     u2 num_annotations;
     annotation annotations[num_annotations];
   }
 
The items of the RuntimeVisibleAnnotations structure are as follows:
attribute_name_index
The value of the attribute_name_index item must be a valid index into the constant_pool table. The constant_pool entry at that index must be a CONSTANT_Utf8_info structure representing the string "RuntimeVisibleAnnotations".
attribute_length
The value of the attribute_length item indicates the length of the attribute, excluding the initial six bytes. The value of the attribute_length item is thus dependent on the number of runtime-visible annotations represented by the structure, and their values.
num_annotations
The value of the num_annotations item gives the number of runtime-visible annotations represented by the structure. Note that a maximum of 65535 runtime-visible Java programming language annotations may be directly attached to a program element.
annotations
Each value of the annotations table represents a single runtime-visible annotation on a program element.

Author:
Eugene Kuleshov

See Also:
JSR 175 : A Metadata Facility for the Java Programming Language

Field Summary

List
annotations
List of Annotation.

Fields inherited from class org.objectweb.asm.Attribute

next, type

Constructor Summary

RuntimeVisibleAnnotations()

Method Summary

protected Attribute
read(ClassReader cr, int off, int len, char[] buf, int codeOff, Label[] labels)
String
toString()
Returns value in the format described in JSR-175 for Java source code.
protected ByteVector
write(ClassWriter cw, byte[] code, int len, int maxStack, int maxLocals)
Returns the byte array form of this attribute.

Methods inherited from class org.objectweb.asm.Attribute

getLabels, isUnknown, read, write

Field Details

annotations

public List annotations
List of Annotation.

Constructor Details

RuntimeVisibleAnnotations

public RuntimeVisibleAnnotations()

Method Details

read

protected Attribute read(ClassReader cr,
                         int off,
                         int len,
                         char[] buf,
                         int codeOff,
                         Label[] labels)


toString

public String toString()
Returns value in the format described in JSR-175 for Java source code.

Returns:
value in the format described in JSR-175 for Java source code.


write

protected ByteVector write(ClassWriter cw,
                           byte[] code,
                           int len,
                           int maxStack,
                           int maxLocals)
Returns the byte array form of this attribute.
Overrides:
write in interface Attribute

Parameters:
cw - the class to which this attribute must be added. This parameter can be used to add to the constant pool of this class the items that corresponds to this attribute.
code - the bytecode of the method corresponding to this code attribute, or null if this attribute is not a code attributes.
len - the length of the bytecode of the method corresponding to this code attribute, or null if this attribute is not a code attribute.
maxStack - the maximum stack size of the method corresponding to this code attribute, or -1 if this attribute is not a code attribute.
maxLocals - the maximum number of local variables of the method corresponding to this code attribute, or -1 if this attribute is not a code attribute.

Returns:
the byte array form of this attribute.