Interface AnnotationConstantValueEntry

All Superinterfaces:

PoolEntry

All Known Subinterfaces:

DoubleEntry, FloatEntry, IntegerEntry, LongEntry, Utf8Entry

public sealed interface AnnotationConstantValueEntry
extends PoolEntry
permits DoubleEntry, FloatEntry, IntegerEntry, LongEntry, Utf8Entry

Marker interface for constant pool entries that can represent constant values associated with elements of annotations. They are also the only entries that do not refer to other constant pool entries.

API Note:

An annotation constant value entry alone is not sufficient to determine the annotation constant; for example, an IntegerEntry of 1 can mean true in AnnotationValue.OfBoolean or 1 in AnnotationValue.OfInt.

See Java Virtual Machine Specification:

4.7.16.1 The element_value structure

Sealed Class Hierarchy Graph:

Since:

24

See Also:

• AnnotationValue.OfConstant

Field Summary

Fields declared in interface java.lang.classfile.constantpool.PoolEntry

TAG_CLASS, TAG_DOUBLE, TAG_DYNAMIC, TAG_FIELDREF, TAG_FLOAT, TAG_INTEGER, TAG_INTERFACE_METHODREF, TAG_INVOKE_DYNAMIC, TAG_LONG, TAG_METHOD_HANDLE, TAG_METHOD_TYPE, TAG_METHODREF, TAG_MODULE, TAG_NAME_AND_TYPE, TAG_PACKAGE, TAG_STRING, TAG_UTF8

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
ConstantDesc	constantValue()	Returns the constant value.

Methods declared in interface java.lang.classfile.constantpool.PoolEntry

constantPool, index, tag, width

Method Details

constantValue

ConstantDesc constantValue()

Returns the constant value. The constant value will be an Integer, Long, Float, Double for the primitive constants, or String for UTF8 constants.

Returns:

the constant value