Interface CodeModel

All Superinterfaces:: AttributedElement, ClassFileElement, CompoundElement<CodeElement>, Iterable<CodeElement>, MethodElement

All Known Subinterfaces:: CodeAttribute

public sealed interface CodeModel extends CompoundElement<CodeElement>, AttributedElement, MethodElement permits CodeAttribute (not exhaustive)

Models the body of a method (the Code attribute). A Code attribute is viewed as a composition of CodeElements, which is the only way to access Instructions; the order of elements of a code model is significant.

A CodeModel is obtained from MethodModel.code(), or in the traversal of the member elements of a method.

MethodBuilder.withCode(Consumer) is the main way to build code models. MethodBuilder.transformCode(CodeModel, CodeTransform) and CodeBuilder.transforming(CodeTransform, Consumer) allow creating new Code attributes by selectively processing the original code elements and directing the results to a code builder.

A Code attribute holds attributes, but they are usually not member elements, but are decomposed to PseudoInstruction, accessible according to ClassFile.DeadLabelsOption, ClassFile.DebugElementsOption, and ClassFile.LineNumbersOption. StackMapTableAttribute can only be accessed via explicit attribute reading, as it is considered a derived property from the code body.

See Java Virtual Machine Specification:

4.7.3 The Code Attribute

Since:

See Also:

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`List<ExceptionCatch>`	`exceptionHandlers()`	Returns the exception table of the method.
`Optional<MethodModel>`	`parent()`	Returns the enclosing method, if known.

Methods declared in interface AttributedElement

attributes, findAttribute, findAttributes

Methods declared in interface CompoundElement

elementList, elementStream, forEach, iterator, toDebugString

Methods declared in interface Iterable

spliterator

Method Details

parent

Optional<MethodModel> parent()

Returns the enclosing method, if known.

Returns:: the enclosing method, if known

exceptionHandlers

List<ExceptionCatch> exceptionHandlers()

Returns the exception table of the method. The exception table is also modeled by ExceptionCatch elements in the streaming view.

Returns:: the exception table of the method

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