[foreign-memaccess+abi] RFR: 8291639: Improve the ability to visualize a MemorySegment in human readable forms [v15]

Per Minborg duke at openjdk.org
Wed Aug 31 13:03:00 UTC 2022


> This PR improves the ability to visualize a `MemorySegment` in human-readable forms (`ByteBuffer`, `byte[]` or any other memory abstraction can be viewed by means of wrapping).
> 
> It exposes a new method via the new utility class `MemoryInspection`
> 
> 
>     /**
>      * Returns a human-readable view of the provided {@code memory} abstraction by optionally
>      * (if not a {@link MemorySession} and {@link Adapter#ofMemorySegment()} already) copying the contents
>      * to a fresh MemorySegment and then view the resulting MemorySegment through the provided {@code layout}.
>      * <p>
>      * Lines are separated with the system-dependent line separator {@link System#lineSeparator() }.
>      * Otherwise, the exact format of the returned view is unspecified and should not
>      * be acted upon programmatically.
>      * <p>
>      * As an example, a MemorySegment viewed though the following memory layout
>      * {@snippet lang = java:
>      * var layout = MemoryLayout.structLayout(
>      *         ValueLayout.JAVA_INT.withName("x"),
>      *         ValueLayout.JAVA_INT.withName("y")
>      * ).withName("Point");
>      *}
>      * might be rendered to something like this:
>      * {@snippet lang = text:
>      * Point {
>      *   x=1,
>      *   y=2
>      * }
>      *}
>      * <p>
>      * This method is intended to view memory abstractions through small and medium-sized memory layouts.
>      *
>      * @param memory   to be viewed
>      * @param adapter  to apply to the provided memory to determine the size and content of the memory abstraction.
>      * @param layout   to use as a layout when viewing the memory segment
>      * @param renderer to apply when rendering value layouts
>      * @param <M>      the memory abstraction type.
>      * @return a view of the memory abstraction viewed through the memory layout
>      * @throws OutOfMemoryError if the view exceeds the array size VM limit
>      */
>     public static <M> String toString(M memory,
>                                       Adapter<M> adapter,
>                                       MemoryLayout layout,
>                                       ValueLayoutRenderer renderer) {
>                                       
> 
> 
> the existing `HexFormat` class will also get two overloads for MemorySegments as well as a new static `dump(segment)` method that can be used to generate hex dumps like:
> 
> 
> 0000000000000000  54 68 65 20 71 75 69 63  6B 20 62 72 6F 77 6E 20  |The quick brown |
> 0000000000000010  66 6F 78 20 6A 75 6D 70  65 64 20 6F 76 65 72 20  |fox jumped over |
> 0000000000000020  74 68 65 20 6C 61 7A 79  20 64 6F 67 0A 53 65 63  |the lazy dog.Sec|
> 0000000000000030  6F 6E 64 20 6C 69 6E 65  09 3A 68 65 72 65 00 00  |ond line.:here..|
> 0000000000000040  00 00 00 00                                       |....|
> 
> Again, other memory abstractions like ByteBuffer and byte arrays can be dumped by first wrapping them into a `MemorySegment`.

Per Minborg has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:

  Fix errors in JavaDoc

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Changes:
  - all: https://git.openjdk.org/panama-foreign/pull/695/files
  - new: https://git.openjdk.org/panama-foreign/pull/695/files/7037f8b9..3d6de3e2

Webrevs:
 - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=panama-foreign&pr=695&range=14
 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=panama-foreign&pr=695&range=13-14

  Stats: 4 lines in 1 file changed: 0 ins; 2 del; 2 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/panama-foreign/pull/695.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/panama-foreign pull/695/head:pull/695

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/panama-foreign/pull/695


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