harpoon.IR.RawClass
Class ConstantString

java.lang.Object
  harpoon.IR.RawClass.Constant
      harpoon.IR.RawClass.ConstantValue
          harpoon.IR.RawClass.ConstantString

public class ConstantString
extends ConstantValue

The CONSTANT_String_info structure is used to represent constant objects of the type java.lang.String.

Version:

$Id: ConstantString.java,v 1.2 2002/02/25 21:05:27 cananian Exp $

Author:

C. Scott Ananian <cananian@alumni.princeton.edu>

See Also:

"The Java Virtual Machine Specification, section 4.4.3", Constant

Field Summary

int	string_index The value of the string_index item must be a valid index into the constant_pool table.

Fields inherited from class harpoon.IR.RawClass.Constant

parent

Constructor Summary

ConstantString(ClassFile parent, int string_index)
Constructor.

Method Summary

ConstantUtf8	string_index()
String	string()
String	toString() Create a human-readable representation of this constant.
Object	value() Returns the value of this constant, wrapped as a java.lang.String.
void	write(ClassDataOutputStream out) Write to a bytecode file.

Methods inherited from class harpoon.IR.RawClass.Constant

entrySize, print, read

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

string_index

public int string_index

The value of the string_index item must be a valid index into the constant_pool table. The constant_pool entry at that point must be a CONSTANT_Utf8_info representing the sequence of characters to which the java.lang.String object is to be initialized.

Constructor Detail

ConstantString

public ConstantString(ClassFile parent,
                      int string_index)

Constructor.

Method Detail

write

public void write(ClassDataOutputStream out)
           throws IOException

Write to a bytecode file.

Specified by:

write in class Constant

Throws:

IOException - on error writing to output stream.

string_index

public ConstantUtf8 string_index()

string

public String string()

value

public Object value()

Returns the value of this constant, wrapped as a java.lang.String.

Specified by:

value in class ConstantValue

toString

public String toString()

Create a human-readable representation of this constant.

Overrides:

toString in class Constant