harpoon.IR.RawClass
Class ConstantUtf8

java.lang.Object
  harpoon.IR.RawClass.Constant
      harpoon.IR.RawClass.ConstantUtf8

public class ConstantUtf8
extends Constant

The CONSTANT_Utf8_info structure is used to represent constant string values.

UTF-8 strings are encoded so that character sequences that contain only non-null ASCII characters can be represented using only one byte per character, but characters of up to 16 bits can be represented.

Version:

$Id: ConstantUtf8.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 4.4.7", Constant

Field Summary

String

val The value of the string constant

Fields inherited from class harpoon.IR.RawClass.Constant

parent

Constructor Summary

ConstantUtf8(ClassFile parent, String val)
Constructor.

Method Summary

String	toString() Create a human-readable representation of this constant.
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

val

public String val

The value of the string constant

Constructor Detail

ConstantUtf8

public ConstantUtf8(ClassFile parent,
                    String val)

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.

toString

public String toString()

Create a human-readable representation of this constant.

Overrides:

toString in class Constant