AnnotationValue.java

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package org.jboss.classfilewriter.annotations;

import org.jboss.classfilewriter.WritableEntry;
import org.jboss.classfilewriter.constpool.ConstPool;
import org.jboss.classfilewriter.util.ByteArrayDataOutputStream;

import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * Represents an annotation name/value pair. This class can also represent a value an an array valued annotation instance, if
 * the name is null
 *
 * @author Stuart Douglas
 *
 */
public abstract class AnnotationValue implements WritableEntry {

    private final String name;

    private final int nameIndex;

    protected AnnotationValue(ConstPool constPool, String name) {
        this.name = name;
        if (name != null) {
            this.nameIndex = constPool.addUtf8Entry(name);
        } else {
            this.nameIndex = -1;
        }
    }

    public void write(ByteArrayDataOutputStream stream) throws IOException {
        if (nameIndex != -1) {
            stream.writeShort(nameIndex);
        }
        stream.writeByte(getTag());
        writeData(stream);
    }

    public abstract void writeData(ByteArrayDataOutputStream stream) throws IOException;

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public abstract char getTag();
}