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Class.java

/*
 * @(#)Class.java	1.30 02/08/15 @(#)
 *
 * Copyright (c) 1994-2002 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 * PROPRIETARY/CONFIDENTIAL
 * Use is subject to license terms.
 */

package java.lang;


import  com.sun.midp.io.ResourceInputStream;

/**
 * Instances of the class <code>Class</code> represent classes and interfaces
 * in a running Java application.  Every array also belongs to a class that is
 * reflected as a <code>Class</code> object that is shared by all arrays with
 * the same element type and number of dimensions.
 *
 * <p> <code>Class</code> has no public constructor. Instead <code>Class</code>
 * objects are constructed automatically by the Java Virtual Machine as classes
 * are loaded.
 *
 * <p> The following example uses a <code>Class</code> object to print the
 * class name of an object:
 *
 * <p> <blockquote><pre>
 *     void printClassName(Object obj) {
 *         System.out.println("The class of " + obj +
 *                            " is " + obj.getClass().getName());
 *     }
 * </pre></blockquote>
 *
 * @author  unascribed
 * @version 1.106, 12/04/99 (CLDC 1.0, Spring 2000)
 * @since   JDK1.0
 */
public final
class Class {

    /*
     * Constructor. Only the Java Virtual Machine creates Class
     * objects.
     */
    private Class() {}

    /**
     * Converts the object to a string. The string representation is the
     * string "class" or "interface", followed by a space, and then by the
     * fully qualified name of the class in the format returned by
     * <code>getName</code>.  If this <code>Class</code> object represents a
     * primitive type, this method returns the name of the primitive type.  If
     * this <code>Class</code> object represents void this method returns
     * "void".
     *
     * @return a string representation of this class object.
     */
    public String toString() {
        return (isInterface() ? "interface " :  "class ") + getName();
    }

    /**
     * Returns the <code>Class</code> object associated with the class
     * with the given string name.
     * Given the fully-qualified name for a class or interface, this
     * method attempts to locate, load and link the class.  If it
     * succeeds, returns the Class object representing the class.  If
     * it fails, the method throws a ClassNotFoundException.
     * <p>
     * For example, the following code fragment returns the runtime
     * <code>Class</code> descriptor for the class named
     * <code>java.lang.Thread</code>:
     * <ul><code>
     *   Class t = Class.forName("java.lang.Thread")
     * </code></ul>
     *
     * @param      className   the fully qualified name of the desired class.
     * @return     the <code>Class</code> descriptor for the class with the
     *             specified name.
     * @exception  ClassNotFoundException  if the class could not be found.
     * @since      JDK1.0
     */
    public static native Class forName(String className)
        throws ClassNotFoundException;

    /**
     * Creates a new instance of a class.
     *
     * @return     a newly allocated instance of the class represented by this
     *             object. This is done exactly as if by a <code>new</code>
     *             expression with an empty argument list.
     * @exception  IllegalAccessException  if the class or initializer is
     *               not accessible.
     * @exception  InstantiationException  if an application tries to
     *               instantiate an abstract class or an interface, or if the
     *               instantiation fails for some other reason.
     * @since     JDK1.0
     */
    public native Object newInstance()
        throws InstantiationException, IllegalAccessException;

    /**
     * Determines if the specified <code>Object</code> is assignment-compatible
     * with the object represented by this <code>Class</code>.  This method is
     * the dynamic equivalent of the Java language <code>instanceof</code>
     * operator. The method returns <code>true</code> if the specified
     * <code>Object</code> argument is non-null and can be cast to the
     * reference type represented by this <code>Class</code> object without
     * raising a <code>ClassCastException.</code> It returns <code>false</code>
     * otherwise.
     *
     * <p> Specifically, if this <code>Class</code> object represents a
     * declared class, this method returns <code>true</code> if the specified
     * <code>Object</code> argument is an instance of the represented class (or
     * of any of its subclasses); it returns <code>false</code> otherwise. If
     * this <code>Class</code> object represents an array class, this method
     * returns <code>true</code> if the specified <code>Object</code> argument
     * can be converted to an object of the array class by an identity
     * conversion or by a widening reference conversion; it returns
     * <code>false</code> otherwise. If this <code>Class</code> object
     * represents an interface, this method returns <code>true</code> if the
     * class or any superclass of the specified <code>Object</code> argument
     * implements this interface; it returns <code>false</code> otherwise. If
     * this <code>Class</code> object represents a primitive type, this method
     * returns <code>false</code>.
     *
     * @param   obj the object to check
     * @return  true if <code>obj</code> is an instance of this class
     *
     * @since JDK1.1
     */
    public native boolean isInstance(Object obj);

    /**
     * Determines if the class or interface represented by this
     * <code>Class</code> object is either the same as, or is a superclass or
     * superinterface of, the class or interface represented by the specified
     * <code>Class</code> parameter. It returns <code>true</code> if so;
     * otherwise it returns <code>false</code>. If this <code>Class</code>
     * object represents a primitive type, this method returns
     * <code>true</code> if the specified <code>Class</code> parameter is
     * exactly this <code>Class</code> object; otherwise it returns
     * <code>false</code>.
     *
     * <p> Specifically, this method tests whether the type represented by the
     * specified <code>Class</code> parameter can be converted to the type
     * represented by this <code>Class</code> object via an identity conversion
     * or via a widening reference conversion. See <em>The Java Language
     * Specification</em>, sections 5.1.1 and 5.1.4 , for details.
     *
     * @param cls the <code>Class</code> object to be checked
     * @return the <code>boolean</code> value indicating whether objects of the
     * type <code>cls</code> can be assigned to objects of this class
     * @exception NullPointerException if the specified Class parameter is
     *            null.
     * @since JDK1.1
     */
    public native boolean isAssignableFrom(Class cls);

    /**
     * Determines if the specified <code>Class</code> object represents an
     * interface type.
     *
     * @return  <code>true</code> if this object represents an interface;
     *          <code>false</code> otherwise.
     */
    public native boolean isInterface();

    /**
     * Determines if this <code>Class</code> object represents an array class.
     *
     * @return  <code>true</code> if this object represents an array class;
     *          <code>false</code> otherwise.
     * @since   JDK1.1
     */
    public native boolean isArray();

    /**
     * Returns the fully-qualified name of the entity (class, interface, array
     * class, primitive type, or void) represented by this <code>Class</code>
     * object, as a <code>String</code>.
     *
     * <p> If this <code>Class</code> object represents a class of arrays, then
     * the internal form of the name consists of the name of the element type
     * in Java signature format, preceded by one or more "<tt>[</tt>"
     * characters representing the depth of array nesting. Thus:
     *
     * <blockquote><pre>
     * (new Object[3]).getClass().getName()
     * </pre></blockquote>
     *
     * returns "<code>[Ljava.lang.Object;</code>" and:
     *
     * <blockquote><pre>
     * (new int[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]).getClass().getName()
     * </pre></blockquote>
     *
     * returns "<code>[[[[[[[I</code>". The encoding of element type names
     * is as follows:
     *
     * <blockquote><pre>
     * B            byte
     * C            char
     * D            double
     * F            float
     * I            int
     * J            long
     * L<i>classname;</i>  class or interface
     * S            short
     * Z            boolean
     * </pre></blockquote>
     *
     * The class or interface name <tt><i>classname</i></tt> is given in fully
     * qualified form as shown in the example above.
     *
     * @return  the fully qualified name of the class or interface
     *          represented by this object.
     */
    public native String getName();

    /**
     * Finds a resource with a given name.  This method returns null if no
     * resource with this name is found.  The rules for searching
     * resources associated with a given class are profile
     * specific.
     *
     * @param name  name of the desired resource
     * @return      a <code>java.io.InputStream</code> object.
     * @since JDK1.1
     */
    public java.io.InputStream getResourceAsStream(String name) {
        try {
	    if (name.length() > 0 && name.charAt(0) == '/') {
		name = name.substring(1);
	    } else {
		String className = this.getName();
		int dotIndex = className.lastIndexOf('.');
		if (dotIndex >= 0) {
		    name = className.substring(0, dotIndex + 1).replace('.', '/') 
                           + name;
		}
	    }
            return new ResourceInputStream(name);
        } catch (java.io.IOException x) {
            return null;
        }
    }

    /*
     * These private function is used by KVM for initialization.
     * Users never see them.
     */
    private static void runCustomCode() {}


/** VM-specific stuff starts here: */
 
       /**
       * Returns the <code>Class</code> representing the superclass of the entity
       * (class, interface, primitive type or void) represented by this
       * <code>Class</code>.  If this <code>Class</code> represents either the
       * <code>Object</code> class, an interface, a primitive type, or void, then
       * null is returned.  If this object represents an array class then the
       * <code>Class</code> object representing the <code>Object</code> class is
       * returned.
	   *
	   * Note that this method is not supported by CLDC.
	   * We have made the method private, since it is
	   * needed by our implementation.
       *
       * @return the superclass of the class represented by this object.
       */

       /* We've made getSuperclass private, since CLDC does not support this method */
       private native Class getSuperclass();


    /*
     * This private variable is used by the VM. Users never see it.
     */
    private transient Object vmClass;

    private int    status;
    private Thread thread;

    private static final int VERIFIED    = 1;
    private static final int IN_PROGRESS = 2;
    private static final int INITIALIZED = 3;
    private static final int ERROR       = 4;

    // Native for invoking <clinit>
    private native void invoke_clinit();
    private native void invoke_verifier();


    void initialize() throws Throwable {
      verify();

      // Implements the 11 step program detailed in Java Language Specification 12.4.2

      // Step 1
      synchronized (this) {
        //  Step 2
        while (status == IN_PROGRESS && thread != Thread.currentThread()) {
          try{ wait(); } catch (InterruptedException e) { }
        }
        // Step 3
        if (status == IN_PROGRESS && thread == Thread.currentThread()) return;
        // Step 4
        if (status == INITIALIZED) return;
        // Step 5
        if (status == ERROR) throw new Error("NoClassDefFoundError:"+getName());
        /* Note: CLDC 1.0 does not have NoClassDefFoundError class */

        // Step 6
        status = IN_PROGRESS;
        thread = Thread.currentThread();
      }

      try {
        // Step 7
        Class s = getSuperclass();
        if (s != null && s.status != INITIALIZED) { 
          // The test of s.status is not part of the spec, but it saves us
          // doing a lot of work in the most common case.
          s.initialize();
        }

        // Step 8
        invoke_clinit();

        // Step 9
        synchronized (this) {
          status = INITIALIZED;
          thread = null;
          notifyAll();
        }
      } catch(Throwable e) {
        // Step 10 and 11
        synchronized (this) {
          status = ERROR;
          thread = null;
          notifyAll();
          throwError(e);
        }
      }
    }

    synchronized void verify() throws Throwable {
      if (status < VERIFIED) { 
        getSuperclass().verify();
        invoke_verifier();
        status = VERIFIED;
      }
    }

    private Error throwError(Throwable e) throws Error { 
        throw (e instanceof Error) ? (Error)e 
            : new Error("Static initializer: " + e.getClass().getName() + ", " + e.getMessage());
    }
}