File	Doc	Category	Size	Date	Package
AttributeReader.java	API Doc	Java SE 6 API	4406	Tue Jun 10 00:22:16 BST 2008	com.sun.org.apache.bcel.internal.classfile

AttributeReader

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public com.sun.org.apache.bcel.internal.classfile.Attribute

createAttribute(int name_index, int length, java.io.DataInputStream file, com.sun.org.apache.bcel.internal.classfile.ConstantPool constant_pool) 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 stream 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, AttributeReader )