--- /dev/null 2017-06-17 22:58:47.330661897 -0700 +++ new/src/java.xml/share/classes/com/sun/org/apache/bcel/internal/classfile/UnknownAttributeReader.java 2017-08-08 16:06:28.497168576 -0700 @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +/* + * reserved comment block + * DO NOT REMOVE OR ALTER! + */ +/* + * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more + * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with + * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. + * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 + * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with + * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at + * + * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + * + * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software + * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, + * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. + * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and + * limitations under the License. + */ + +package com.sun.org.apache.bcel.internal.classfile; + +/** + * Unknown (non-standard) attributes may be read via user-defined factory + * objects that can be registered with the Attribute.addAttributeReader + * method. These factory objects should implement this interface. + * + * @see Attribute + * @version $Id: UnknownAttributeReader.java 1747278 2016-06-07 17:28:43Z britter $ + * @since 6.0 + */ +public interface UnknownAttributeReader { + + /** + * When this attribute reader is added via the static method Attribute.addAttributeReader, + * an attribute name is associated with it. As the class file parser parses attributes, + * it will call various AttributeReaders based on the name of the attributes it is constructing. + * + * @param name_index An index into the constant pool, indexing a ConstantUtf8 + * that represents the name of the attribute. + * @param length The length of the data contained in the attribute. This is written + * into the constant pool and should agree with what the factory expects the length to be. + * @param file This is the data input that the factory needs to read its data from. + * @param constant_pool This is the constant pool associated with the Attribute that we are constructing. + * + * @return The user-defined AttributeReader should take this data and use + * it to construct an attribute. In the case of errors, a null can be + * returned which will cause the parsing of the class file to fail. + * + * @see Attribute#addAttributeReader(String, UnknownAttributeReader) + */ + Attribute createAttribute( int name_index, int length, java.io.DataInput file, ConstantPool constant_pool ); +}