RFR: 8311084: Add typeSymbol() API for applicable constant pool entries [v3]

[Adam Sotona]

On Wed, 20 Sep 2023 07:35:40 GMT, Chen Liang <liach at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> 5 Constant Pool entries, namely ConstantDynamicEntry, InvokeDynamicEntry, FieldRefEntry, MethodRefEntry, and InterfaceMethodRefEntry should have a typeSymbol() API to return the nominal/symbolic descriptor (ClassDesc or MethodTypeDesc).
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>> This API is not added to NameAndTypeEntry itself, for a NameAndTypeEntry only knows if its type should be a field or method type from the other entries that refer to it.
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>> This is one of the issues discussed in this mailing list thread: https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/classfile-api-dev/2023-June/000381.html
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> Chen Liang has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains four additional commits since the last revision:
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>  - Merge branch 'master' into feature/cpentry-typesym
>  - Merge branch 'master' of https://github.com/openjdk/jdk into feature/cpentry-typesym
>  - Use typeSymbol in asSymbol
>  - Add typeSymbol API for a few constant pool entries

It looks good, thanks for the patch.

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Marked as reviewed by asotona (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14706#pullrequestreview-1636043719