oracle.toplink.libraries.asm.attrs
Class RuntimeInvisibleAnnotations

java.lang.Object
  oracle.toplink.libraries.asm.Attribute
      oracle.toplink.libraries.asm.attrs.RuntimeInvisibleAnnotations

Direct Known Subclasses:

ASMRuntimeInvisibleAnnotations

public class RuntimeInvisibleAnnotations
extends Attribute

The RuntimeInvisibleAnnotations attribute is similar to the RuntimeVisibleAnnotations attribute, except that the annotations represented by a RuntimeInvisibleAnnotations attribute must not be made available for return by reflective APIs, unless the JVM has been instructed to retain these annotations via some implementation-specific mechanism such as a command line flag. In the absence of such instructions, the JVM ignores this attribute.

The RuntimeInvisibleAnnotations attribute is a variable length attribute in the attributes table of the ClassFile, field_info, and method_info structures. The RuntimeInvisibleAnnotations attribute records runtime-invisible Java programming language annotations on the corresponding class, method, or field. Each ClassFile, field_info, and method_info structure may contain at most one RuntimeInvisibleAnnotations attribute, which records all the runtime-invisible Java programming language annotations on the corresponding program element.

The RuntimeInvisibleAnnotations attribute has the following format:

   RuntimeInvisibleAnnotations_attribute {
     u2 attribute_name_index;
     u4 attribute_length;
     u2 num_annotations;
     annotation annotations[num_annotations];
   }
 

The items of the RuntimeInvisibleAnnotations structure are as follows:

attribute_name_index

The value of the attribute_name_index item must be a valid index into the constant_pool table. The constant_pool entry at that index must be a CONSTANT_Utf8_info structure representing the string "RuntimeInvisibleAnnotations".

attribute_length

The value of the attribute_length item indicates the length of the attribute, excluding the initial six bytes. The value of the attribute_length item is thus dependent on the number of runtime-invisible annotations represented by the structure, and their values.

num_annotations

The value of the num_annotations item gives the number of runtime-invisible annotations represented by the structure. Note that a maximum of 65535 runtime-invisible Java programming language annotations may be directly attached to a program element.

annotations

Each value of the annotations table represents a single runtime-invisible annotation on a program element.

See Also:

JSR 175 : A Metadata Facility for the Java Programming Language

Field Summary

java.util.List

annotations List of Annotation.

Fields inherited from class oracle.toplink.libraries.asm.Attribute

next, type

Constructor Summary

RuntimeInvisibleAnnotations()

Method Summary

java.lang.String

toString() Returns value in the format described in JSR-175 for Java source code.

Methods inherited from class oracle.toplink.libraries.asm.Attribute

isUnknown

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

annotations

public java.util.List annotations

Description copied from class: RuntimeInvisibleAnnotations

List of Annotation.

Constructor Detail

RuntimeInvisibleAnnotations

public RuntimeInvisibleAnnotations()

Method Detail

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Returns value in the format described in JSR-175 for Java source code.

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object

Returns:

value in the format described in JSR-175 for Java source code.