Interface PackageEntry

All Superinterfaces:

ClassFileElementPREVIEW, PoolEntryPREVIEW, WritableElementPREVIEW<PoolEntryPREVIEW>

public sealed interface PackageEntry
extends PoolEntryPREVIEW

PackageEntry is a preview API of the Java platform.

Programs can only use PackageEntry when preview features are enabled.

Preview features may be removed in a future release, or upgraded to permanent features of the Java platform.

Models a CONSTANT_Package_info constant in the constant pool of a classfile.

See Java Virtual Machine Specification:

4.4.12 The CONSTANT_Package_info Structure

Since:

22

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
PackageDesc	asSymbol()	Returns a symbolic descriptor for the package name.
Utf8EntryPREVIEW	name()	Returns the package name.

Methods declared in interface java.lang.classfile.constantpool.PoolEntry^PREVIEW

constantPool, index, tag, width

Methods declared in interface java.lang.classfile.WritableElement^PREVIEW

writeTo

Method Details

name

Utf8EntryPREVIEW name()

Returns the package name.

Returns:

the package name

asSymbol

PackageDesc asSymbol()

Returns a symbolic descriptor for the package name.

Returns:

a symbolic descriptor for the package name