RFR: 8306697: Add method to obtain String for CONSTANT_Class_info in ClassDesc

Chen Liang liach at openjdk.org
Sat Apr 22 15:21:41 UTC 2023


Add a method `internalName` (name subject to discussion) to `ClassDesc`, which allows easily obtaining a String for representation of a class constant in CONSTANT_Class_info.

The motivation of this API is that avoiding frequent String creations via caching (enabled by this new API, will be in a separate patch) would speed up Classfile API's [writing of simple class files](https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/test/micro/org/openjdk/bench/jdk/classfile/Write.java) by 1/3. See https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/classfile-api-dev/2023-April/000296.html for more context.

This API is futureproof: for Valhalla's Q-types, it will return their string representation in CONSTANT_Class_info, which is most likely their full descriptor string.

Javadoc: https://cr.openjdk.org/~liach/8306697/java.base/java/lang/constant/ClassDesc.html#internalName()

For the method name: `internalName` is intuitive as it is almost like an inverse operation of `ofInternalName`, but the concept of internal name only applies to classes and interfaces (as described in [JVMS 4.4.1](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se20/html/jvms-4.html#jvms-4.4.1)) and doesn't apply to arrays. And internal names (binary name in internal form) is useless outside of CONSTANT_Class_info; other usages are already covered by `descriptorString`. If we stay on the naming of "internal name" (which I would prefer), we might expand it and potentially upgrade `ofInternalName` to take care of future CONSTANT_Class_info content (like Q-types)

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Commit messages:
 - 8306697: Add method to obtain String for CONSTANT_Class_info in ClassDesc

Changes: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13598/files
 Webrev: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=13598&range=00
  Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8306697
  Stats: 46 lines in 4 files changed: 39 ins; 5 del; 2 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13598.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/13598/head:pull/13598

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13598


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