libjava/classpath/vm/reference/java/lang/reflect/VMMethod.java

/* java.lang.reflect.VMMethod - VM interface for reflection of Java methods
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package java.lang.reflect;

import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;

import java.util.Arrays;

final class VMMethod
{
  Class clazz;
  String name;
  int slot;

  /**
   * This field allows us to refer back to the main constructor instance.
   *  It is set by the constructor of Field.
   */
  Method m;

  public Class getDeclaringClass()
  {
    return clazz;
  }

  public String getName()
  {
    return name;
  }

  /**
   * Return the raw modifiers for this method.
   * @return the method's modifiers
   */
  native int getModifiersInternal();

  /**
   * Gets the return type of this method.
   * @return the type of this method
   */
  native Class getReturnType();

  /**
   * Get the parameter list for this method, in declaration order. If the
   * method takes no parameters, returns a 0-length array (not null).
   *
   * @return a list of the types of the method's parameters
   */
  native Class[] getParameterTypes();

  /**
   * Get the exception types this method says it throws, in no particular
   * order. If the method has no throws clause, returns a 0-length array
   * (not null).
   *
   * @return a list of the types in the method's throws clause
   */
  native Class[] getExceptionTypes();

  native Object invoke(Object o, Object[] args)
    throws IllegalAccessException, InvocationTargetException;

  /**
   * Return the String in the Signature attribute for this method. If there
   * is no Signature attribute, return null.
   */
  native String getSignature();

  /**
   * If this method is an annotation method, returns the default
   * value for the method.  If there is no default value, or if the
   * method is not a member of an annotation type, returns null.
   * Primitive types are wrapped.
   *
   * @throws TypeNotPresentException if the method returns a Class,
   * and the class cannot be found
   *
   * @since 1.5
   */
  native Object getDefaultValue();

  /**
   * <p>
   * Return an array of arrays representing the annotations on each
   * of the method's parameters.  The outer array is aligned against
   * the parameters of the method and is thus equal in length to
   * the number of parameters (thus having a length zero if there are none).
   * Each array element in the outer array contains an inner array which
   * holds the annotations.  This array has a length of zero if the parameter
   * has no annotations.
   * </p>
   * <p>
   * The returned annotations are serialized.  Changing the annotations has
   * no affect on the return value of future calls to this method.
   * </p>
   *
   * @return an array of arrays which represents the annotations used on the
   *         parameters of this method.  The order of the array elements
   *         matches the declaration order of the parameters.
   * @since 1.5
   */
  native Annotation[][] getParameterAnnotations();

  /**
   * Compare two objects to see if they are semantically equivalent.
   * Two Methods are semantically equivalent if they have the same declaring
   * class, name, parameter list, and return type.
   *
   * @param o the object to compare to
   * @return <code>true</code> if they are equal; <code>false</code> if not
   */
  public boolean equals(Object o)
  {
      // Implementation note:
      // The following is a correct but possibly slow implementation.
      //
      // This class has a private field 'slot' that could be used by
      // the VM implementation to "link" a particular method to a Class.
      // In that case equals could be simply implemented as:
      //
      // if (o instanceof Method)
      // {
      //    Method m = (Method)o;
      //    return m.declaringClass == this.declaringClass
      //           && m.slot == this.slot;
      // }
      // return false;
      //
      // If a VM uses the Method class as their native/internal representation
      // then just using the following would be optimal:
      //
      // return this == o;
      //
    if (!(o instanceof Method))
      return false;
    Method that = (Method)o;
    if (clazz != that.getDeclaringClass())
      return false;
    if (!name.equals(that.getName()))
      return false;
    if (getReturnType() != that.getReturnType())
      return false;
    if (!Arrays.equals(getParameterTypes(), that.getParameterTypes()))
      return false;
    return true;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the element's annotation for the specified annotation type,
   * or <code>null</code> if no such annotation exists.
   *
   * @param annotationClass the type of annotation to look for.
   * @return this element's annotation for the specified type, or
   *         <code>null</code> if no such annotation exists.
   * @throws NullPointerException if the annotation class is <code>null</code>.
   */
  native Annotation getAnnotation(Class annotationClass);

  /**
   * Returns all annotations directly defined by the element.  If there are
   * no annotations directly associated with the element, then a zero-length
   * array will be returned.  The returned array may be modified by the client
   * code, but this will have no effect on the annotation content of this
   * class, and hence no effect on the return value of this method for
   * future callers.
   *
   * @return the annotations directly defined by the element.
   * @since 1.5
   */
  native Annotation[] getDeclaredAnnotations();

}