Interface SourceDebugExtensionAttribute

All Superinterfaces:

Attribute<SourceDebugExtensionAttribute>, ClassElement, ClassFileElement

public sealed interface SourceDebugExtensionAttribute
extends Attribute<SourceDebugExtensionAttribute>, ClassElement

Models the SourceDebugExtension attribute (JVMS 4.7.11), which stores arbitrary modified UTF-8 data.

This attribute only appears on classes, and does not permit multiple instances in a class. It has no data dependency.

The attribute was introduced in the Java SE Platform version 5.0, major version 49.

See Java Virtual Machine Specification:

4.7.11 The SourceDebugExtension Attribute

Since:

24

See Also:

• Attributes.sourceDebugExtension()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
byte[]	contents()	Returns the debug extension payload.
static SourceDebugExtensionAttribute	of(byte[] contents)	Returns a SourceDebugExtension attribute.

Methods declared in interface java.lang.classfile.Attribute

attributeMapper, attributeName

Method Details

contents

byte[] contents()

Returns the debug extension payload. The payload may denote a string longer than that which can be represented with a String.

Returns:

the debug extension payload

of

static SourceDebugExtensionAttribute of(byte[] contents)

Returns a SourceDebugExtension attribute.

Parameters:

contents - the extension contents

Returns:

a SourceDebugExtension attribute