Interface FieldModel

All Superinterfaces:: AttributedElement, ClassElement, ClassFileElement, CompoundElement<FieldElement>, Iterable<FieldElement>

public sealed interface FieldModel extends CompoundElement<FieldElement>, AttributedElement, ClassElement

Models a field. A field can be viewed as a composition of FieldElements, or by random access via accessor methods if only specific parts of the field is needed.

Fields can be obtained from ClassModel.fields(), or in the traversal of member elements of a class.

ClassBuilder.withField(String, ClassDesc, Consumer) is the main way to construct fields. ClassBuilder.transformField(FieldModel, FieldTransform) allows creating a new field by selectively processing the original field elements and directing the results to a field builder.

All field attributes are accessible as member elements.

See Java Virtual Machine Specification:

4.5 Fields

Since:

See Also:

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`Utf8Entry`	`fieldName()`	Returns the name of this field.
`Utf8Entry`	`fieldType()`	Returns the field descriptor string of this field.
`default ClassDesc`	`fieldTypeSymbol()`	Returns the field type, as a symbolic descriptor.
`AccessFlags`	`flags()`	Returns the access flags.
`Optional<ClassModel>`	`parent()`	Returns the class model this field is a member of, 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

flags

AccessFlags flags()

Returns the access flags.

Returns:

the access flags

See Also:

parent

Optional<ClassModel> parent()

Returns the class model this field is a member of, if known.

Returns:: the class model this field is a member of, if known

fieldName

Utf8Entry fieldName()

Returns the name of this field.

Returns:: the name of this field

fieldType

Utf8Entry fieldType()

Returns the field descriptor string of this field.

Returns:: the field descriptor string of this field

fieldTypeSymbol

default ClassDesc fieldTypeSymbol()

Returns the field type, as a symbolic descriptor.

Returns:: the field type, as a symbolic descriptor

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