RFR: 8294982: Implementation of Classfile API [v20]

[Adam Sotona]

On Thu, 16 Feb 2023 10:56:57 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Adam Sotona has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   added 4-byte Unicode text to Utf8EntryTest
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> src/java.base/share/classes/jdk/internal/classfile/components/ClassPrinter.java line 93:
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>> 91:          * @return name of the node
>> 92:          */
>> 93:         public ConstantDesc name();
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> Not sure about the ConstantDesc here. Why is it better than String?

Type information allows nice rendering for some types in some structured text formats, while `ConstantDesc::toString` is a fallback.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10982