8 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
9 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
10 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
11 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
12 *
13 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
14 *
15 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
16 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
17 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
18 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
19 * limitations under the License.
20 */
21
22 package com.sun.org.apache.bcel.internal.generic;
23
24 /**
25 * Denotes that an instruction may start the process of loading and resolving
26 * the referenced class in the Virtual Machine.
27 *
28 * @version $Id$
29 */
30 public interface LoadClass {
31
32 /**
33 * Returns the ObjectType of the referenced class or interface
34 * that may be loaded and resolved.
35 * @return object type that may be loaded or null if a primitive is
36 * referenced
37 */
38 ObjectType getLoadClassType( ConstantPoolGen cpg );
39
40
41 /**
42 * Returns the type associated with this instruction.
43 * LoadClass instances are always typed, but this type
44 * does not always refer to the type of the class or interface
45 * that it possibly forces to load. For example, GETFIELD would
46 * return the type of the field and not the type of the class
47 * where the field is defined.
48 * If no class is forced to be loaded, <B>null</B> is returned.
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8 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
9 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
10 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
11 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
12 *
13 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
14 *
15 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
16 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
17 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
18 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
19 * limitations under the License.
20 */
21
22 package com.sun.org.apache.bcel.internal.generic;
23
24 /**
25 * Denotes that an instruction may start the process of loading and resolving
26 * the referenced class in the Virtual Machine.
27 *
28 */
29 public interface LoadClass {
30
31 /**
32 * Returns the ObjectType of the referenced class or interface
33 * that may be loaded and resolved.
34 * @return object type that may be loaded or null if a primitive is
35 * referenced
36 */
37 ObjectType getLoadClassType( ConstantPoolGen cpg );
38
39
40 /**
41 * Returns the type associated with this instruction.
42 * LoadClass instances are always typed, but this type
43 * does not always refer to the type of the class or interface
44 * that it possibly forces to load. For example, GETFIELD would
45 * return the type of the field and not the type of the class
46 * where the field is defined.
47 * If no class is forced to be loaded, <B>null</B> is returned.
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