package org.apache.bcel.classfile;

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import  org.apache.bcel.Constants;
import  java.io.*;

/**
 * Abstract superclass for classes to represent the different constant types
 * in the constant pool of a class file. The classes keep closely to
 * the JVM specification.
 *
 * @version $Id: Constant.java,v 1.3 2002/07/11 19:39:04 mdahm Exp $
 * @author  <A HREF="mailto:markus.dahm@berlin.de">M. Dahm</A>
 */
public abstract class Constant implements Cloneable, Node, Serializable {
  /* In fact this tag is redundant since we can distinguish different
   * `Constant' objects by their type, i.e., via `instanceof'. In some
   * places we will use the tag for switch()es anyway.
   *
   * First, we want match the specification as closely as possible. Second we
   * need the tag as an index to select the corresponding class name from the 
   * `CONSTANT_NAMES' array.
   */
  protected byte tag;

  Constant(byte tag) { this.tag = tag; }

  /**
   * Called by objects that are traversing the nodes of the tree implicitely
   * defined by the contents of a Java class. I.e., the hierarchy of methods,
   * fields, attributes, etc. spawns a tree of objects.
   *
   * @param v Visitor object
   */
  public abstract void accept(Visitor v);    

  public abstract void dump(DataOutputStream file) throws IOException;    

  /**
   * @return Tag of constant, i.e., its type. No setTag() method to avoid
   * confusion.
   */
  public final byte getTag() { return tag; }

  /**
   * @return String representation.
   */  
  public String toString() {
    return Constants.CONSTANT_NAMES[tag] + "[" + tag + "]";
  }    

  /**
   * @return deep copy of this constant
   */
  public Constant copy() {
    try {
      return (Constant)super.clone();
    } catch(CloneNotSupportedException e) {}

    return null;
  }

  public Object clone() throws CloneNotSupportedException {
    return super.clone();
  }

  /**
   * Read one constant from the given file, the type depends on a tag byte.
   *
   * @param file Input stream
   * @return Constant object
   */
  static final Constant readConstant(DataInputStream file)
    throws IOException, ClassFormatException
  {
    byte b = file.readByte(); // Read tag byte

    switch(b) {
    case Constants.CONSTANT_Class:              return new ConstantClass(file);
    case Constants.CONSTANT_Fieldref:           return new ConstantFieldref(file);
    case Constants.CONSTANT_Methodref:          return new ConstantMethodref(file);
    case Constants.CONSTANT_InterfaceMethodref: return new 
					ConstantInterfaceMethodref(file);
    case Constants.CONSTANT_String:             return new ConstantString(file);
    case Constants.CONSTANT_Integer:            return new ConstantInteger(file);
    case Constants.CONSTANT_Float:              return new ConstantFloat(file);
    case Constants.CONSTANT_Long:               return new ConstantLong(file);
    case Constants.CONSTANT_Double:             return new ConstantDouble(file);
    case Constants.CONSTANT_NameAndType:        return new ConstantNameAndType(file);
    case Constants.CONSTANT_Utf8:               return new ConstantUtf8(file);
    default:                          
      throw new ClassFormatException("Invalid byte tag in constant pool: " + b);
    }
  }    
}