de.fub.bytecode.classfile
Class ConstantString

java.lang.Object
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  +--de.fub.bytecode.classfile.Constant
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        +--de.fub.bytecode.classfile.ConstantString

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Cloneable, ConstantObject, Node

public final class ConstantString

extends Constant

implements ConstantObject

This class is derived from the abstract Constant class and represents a reference to a String object.

Version:

$Id: ConstantString.java,v 1.5 2001/08/08 14:01:11 dahm Exp $

Author:

M. Dahm

See Also:

Constant

Fields inherited from class de.fub.bytecode.classfile.Constant

tag

Constructor Summary

ConstantString(ConstantString c)
Initialize from another object.

ConstantString(int string_index)

Method Summary

void	accept(Visitor v) Called by objects that are traversing the nodes of the tree implicitely defined by the contents of a Java class.
void	dump(java.io.DataOutputStream file) Dump constant field reference to file stream in binary format.
java.lang.String	getBytes(ConstantPool cp)
java.lang.Object	getConstantValue(ConstantPool cp)
int	getStringIndex()
void	setStringIndex(int string_index)
java.lang.String	toString()

Methods inherited from class de.fub.bytecode.classfile.Constant

clone, copy, getTag

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ConstantString

public ConstantString(ConstantString c)

Initialize from another object.

ConstantString

public ConstantString(int string_index)

Parameters:

string_index - Index of Constant_Utf8 in constant pool

Method Detail

accept

public void accept(Visitor v)

Called by objects that are traversing the nodes of the tree implicitely defined by the contents of a Java class. I.e., the hierarchy of methods, fields, attributes, etc. spawns a tree of objects.

Overrides:

accept in class Constant

Parameters:

v - Visitor object

dump

public final void dump(java.io.DataOutputStream file)
                throws java.io.IOException

Dump constant field reference to file stream in binary format.

Overrides:

dump in class Constant

Parameters:

file - Output file stream

getStringIndex

public final int getStringIndex()

Returns:

Index in constant pool of the string (ConstantUtf8).

setStringIndex

public final void setStringIndex(int string_index)

Parameters:

string_index. -

toString

public final java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Constant

Returns:

String representation.

getConstantValue

public java.lang.Object getConstantValue(ConstantPool cp)

Specified by:

getConstantValue in interface ConstantObject

Returns:

String object

getBytes

public java.lang.String getBytes(ConstantPool cp)

Returns:

dereferenced string