Classfile API proposal to integrate basic print functionality directly to ClassModel and MethodModel

[Michael van Acken]

Related but geared towards the builder side of things:

Is there a way to print out a trace of parts fed to CodeBuilder instances?

Just this morning I had Classfile die on me because of a stack underflow,
and it was quite hard to find out which parts were missing from the Code
attribute.  And that with a Code totalling just 5 instructions...

If there would have been bytes output, then I could have inspected the
situation with javap.  But if I mess up and pass inconsistent data to
CodeBuilder, causing it to throw instead of producing a byte array, then
I have an observability gap.

-- mva
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