gcc/libjava/java/lang/reflect/Method.java

// Method.java - Represent method of class or interface.

/* Copyright (C) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003  Free Software Foundation

   This file is part of libgcj.

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Libgcj License.  Please consult the file "LIBGCJ_LICENSE" for
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package java.lang.reflect;

import gnu.gcj.RawData;

/**
 * The Method class represents a member method of a class. It also allows
 * dynamic invocation, via reflection. This works for both static and
 * instance methods. Invocation on Method objects knows how to do
 * widening conversions, but throws {@link IllegalArgumentException} if
 * a narrowing conversion would be necessary. You can query for information
 * on this Method regardless of location, but invocation access may be limited
 * by Java language access controls. If you can't do it in the compiler, you
 * can't normally do it here either.<p>
 *
 * <B>Note:</B> This class returns and accepts types as Classes, even
 * primitive types; there are Class types defined that represent each
 * different primitive type.  They are <code>java.lang.Boolean.TYPE,
 * java.lang.Byte.TYPE,</code>, also available as <code>boolean.class,
 * byte.class</code>, etc.  These are not to be confused with the
 * classes <code>java.lang.Boolean, java.lang.Byte</code>, etc., which are
 * real classes.<p>
 *
 * Also note that this is not a serializable class.  It is entirely feasible
 * to make it serializable using the Externalizable interface, but this is
 * on Sun, not me.
 *
 * @author John Keiser
 * @author Eric Blake <ebb9@email.byu.edu>
 * @author Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
 * @see Member
 * @see Class
 * @see java.lang.Class#getMethod(String,Object[])
 * @see java.lang.Class#getDeclaredMethod(String,Object[])
 * @see java.lang.Class#getMethods()
 * @see java.lang.Class#getDeclaredMethods()
 * @since 1.1
 * @status updated to 1.4
 */
public final class Method extends AccessibleObject implements Member
{
  /**
   * This class is uninstantiable.
   */
  private Method ()
  {
  }

  /**
   * Gets the class that declared this method, or the class where this method
   * is a non-inherited member.
   * @return the class that declared this member
   */
  public Class getDeclaringClass ()
  {
    return declaringClass;
  }

  /**
   * Gets the name of this method.
   * @return the name of this method
   */
  public native String getName ();

  /**
   * Gets the modifiers this method uses.  Use the <code>Modifier</code>
   * class to interpret the values.  A method can only have a subset of the
   * following modifiers: public, private, protected, abstract, static,
   * final, synchronized, native, and strictfp.
   *
   * @return an integer representing the modifiers to this Member
   * @see Modifier
   */
  public native int getModifiers ();

  /**
   * Gets the return type of this method.
   * @return the type of this method
   */
  public Class getReturnType ()
  {
    if (return_type == null)
      getType();
    return return_type;
  }

  /**
   * Get the parameter list for this method, in declaration order. If the
   * method takes no parameters, returns a 0-length array (not null).
   *
   * @return a list of the types of the method's parameters
   */
  public Class[] getParameterTypes ()
  {
    if (parameter_types == null)
      getType();
    return (Class[]) parameter_types.clone();
  }

  /**
   * Get the exception types this method says it throws, in no particular
   * order. If the method has no throws clause, returns a 0-length array
   * (not null).
   *
   * @return a list of the types in the method's throws clause
   */
  public Class[] getExceptionTypes ()
  {
    if (exception_types == null)
      getType();
    return (Class[]) exception_types.clone();
  }

  /**
   * Compare two objects to see if they are semantically equivalent.
   * Two Methods are semantically equivalent if they have the same declaring
   * class, name, and parameter list.  This ignores different exception
   * clauses or return types.
   *
   * @param o the object to compare to
   * @return <code>true</code> if they are equal; <code>false</code> if not
   */
  public boolean equals (Object obj)
  {
    if (! (obj instanceof Method))
      return false;
    Method m = (Method) obj;
    return declaringClass == m.declaringClass && offset == m.offset;
  }

  /**
   * Get the hash code for the Method.
   *
   * @return the hash code for the object
   */
  public int hashCode ()
  {
    // FIXME.
    return getName().hashCode() + declaringClass.getName().hashCode();
  }

  /**
   * Get a String representation of the Method. A Method's String
   * representation is "&lt;modifiers&gt; &lt;returntype&gt;
   * &lt;methodname&gt;(&lt;paramtypes&gt;) throws &lt;exceptions&gt;", where
   * everything after ')' is omitted if there are no exceptions.<br> Example:
   * <code>public static int run(java.lang.Runnable,int)</code>
   *
   * @return the String representation of the Method
   */
  public String toString ()
  {
    if (parameter_types == null)
      getType ();

    StringBuffer b = new StringBuffer ();
    Modifier.toString(getModifiers(), b);
    b.append(" ");
    appendClassName (b, return_type);
    b.append(" ");
    appendClassName (b, declaringClass);
    b.append(".");
    b.append(getName());
    b.append("(");
    for (int i = 0; i < parameter_types.length; ++i)
      {
	appendClassName (b, parameter_types[i]);
	if (i < parameter_types.length - 1)
	  b.append(",");
      }
    b.append(")");
    if (exception_types.length > 0)
      {
	b.append(" throws ");
	for (int i = 0; i < exception_types.length; ++i)
	  {
	    appendClassName (b, exception_types[i]);
	    if (i < exception_types.length - 1)
	      b.append(",");
	  }
      }
    return b.toString();
  }

  /**
   * Invoke the method. Arguments are automatically unwrapped and widened,
   * and the result is automatically wrapped, if needed.<p>
   *
   * If the method is static, <code>o</code> will be ignored. Otherwise,
   * the method uses dynamic lookup as described in JLS 15.12.4.4. You cannot
   * mimic the behavior of nonvirtual lookup (as in super.foo()). This means
   * you will get a <code>NullPointerException</code> if <code>o</code> is
   * null, and an <code>IllegalArgumentException</code> if it is incompatible
   * with the declaring class of the method. If the method takes 0 arguments,
   * you may use null or a 0-length array for <code>args</code>.<p>
   *
   * Next, if this Method enforces access control, your runtime context is
   * evaluated, and you may have an <code>IllegalAccessException</code> if
   * you could not acces this method in similar compiled code. If the method
   * is static, and its class is uninitialized, you trigger class
   * initialization, which may end in a
   * <code>ExceptionInInitializerError</code>.<p>
   *
   * Finally, the method is invoked. If it completes normally, the return value
   * will be null for a void method, a wrapped object for a primitive return
   * method, or the actual return of an Object method. If it completes
   * abruptly, the exception is wrapped in an
   * <code>InvocationTargetException</code>.
   *
   * @param o the object to invoke the method on
   * @param args the arguments to the method
   * @return the return value of the method, wrapped in the appropriate
   *         wrapper if it is primitive
   * @throws IllegalAccessException if the method could not normally be called
   *         by the Java code (i.e. it is not public)
   * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the number of arguments is incorrect;
   *         if the arguments types are wrong even with a widening conversion;
   *         or if <code>o</code> is not an instance of the class or interface
   *         declaring this method
   * @throws InvocationTargetException if the method throws an exception
   * @throws NullPointerException if <code>o</code> is null and this field
   *         requires an instance
   * @throws ExceptionInInitializerError if accessing a static method triggered
   *         class initialization, which then failed
   */
  public native Object invoke (Object obj, Object[] args)
    throws IllegalAccessException, IllegalArgumentException,
    InvocationTargetException;

  private native void getType ();

  // Append a class name to a string buffer.  We try to print the
  // fully-qualified name, the way that a Java programmer would expect
  // it to be written.  Weirdly, Class has no appropriate method for
  // this.
  static void appendClassName (StringBuffer buf, Class k)
  {
    if (k.isArray ())
      {
	appendClassName (buf, k.getComponentType ());
	buf.append ("[]");
      }
    else
      {
	// This is correct for primitive and reference types.  Really
	// we'd like `Main$Inner' to be printed as `Main.Inner', I
	// think, but that is a pain.
	buf.append (k.getName ());
      }
  }

  // Declaring class.
  private Class declaringClass;

  // Exception types.
  private Class[] exception_types;
  // Name cache.  (Initially null.)
  private String name;
  // Parameter types.
  private Class[] parameter_types;
  // Return type.
  private Class return_type;

  // Offset in bytes from the start of declaringClass's methods array.
  private int offset;
}