Interface UnknownAttribute

All Superinterfaces:: Attribute<UnknownAttribute>, ClassElement, ClassFileElement, CodeElement, FieldElement, MethodElement

public sealed interface UnknownAttribute extends Attribute<UnknownAttribute>, ClassElement, MethodElement, FieldElement, CodeElement

Models an unknown attribute read from a class file. An attribute is unknown if it is not recognized by one of the mappers in Attributes and is not recognized by the ClassFile.AttributesProcessingOption.

An unknown attribute may appear anywhere where an attribute may appear, and has an unknown data dependency.

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Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`byte[]`	`contents()`	Returns the uninterpreted contents of the attribute payload.

Methods declared in interface Attribute

attributeMapper, attributeName

Method Details

byte[] contents()

Returns the uninterpreted contents of the attribute payload.

Returns:: the uninterpreted contents of the attribute payload

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