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package jdk.internal.dynalink.linker;
import jdk.internal.dynalink.CallSiteDescriptor;
import jdk.internal.dynalink.DynamicLinkerFactory;
/**
* Represents a request to link a particular invocation at a particular call site. Instances of these requests are being
* passed to {@link GuardingDynamicLinker}.
*/
public interface LinkRequest {
/**
* Returns the call site descriptor for the call site being linked.
*
* @return the call site descriptor for the call site being linked.
*/
public CallSiteDescriptor getCallSiteDescriptor();
/**
* Returns the call site token for the call site being linked. This token is an opaque object that is guaranteed to
* have different identity for different call sites, and is also guaranteed to not become weakly reachable before
* the call site does and to become weakly reachable some time after the call site does. This makes it ideal as a
* candidate for a key in a weak hash map in which a linker might want to keep per-call site linking state (usually
* profiling information).
*
* @return the call site token for the call site being linked.
*/
public Object getCallSiteToken();
/**
* Returns the arguments for the invocation being linked. The returned array is a clone; modifications to it won't
* affect the arguments in this request.
*
* @return the arguments for the invocation being linked.
*/
public Object[] getArguments();
/**
* Returns the 0th argument for the invocation being linked; this is typically the receiver object.
*
* @return the receiver object.
*/
public Object getReceiver();
/**
* Returns the number of times this callsite has been linked/relinked. This can be useful if you want to
* change e.g. exception based relinking to guard based relinking. It's probably not a good idea to keep,
* for example, expensive exception throwing relinkage based on failed type checks/ClassCastException in
* a nested callsite tree where the exception is thrown repeatedly for the common case. There it would be
* much more performant to use exact type guards instead.
*
* @return link count for call site
*/
public int getLinkCount();
/**
* Returns true if the call site is considered unstable, that is, it has been relinked more times than was
* specified in {@link DynamicLinkerFactory#setUnstableRelinkThreshold(int)}. Linkers should use this as a
* hint to prefer producing linkage that is more stable (its guard fails less frequently), even if that assumption
* causes a less effective version of an operation to be linked. This is just a hint, of course, and linkers are
* free to ignore this property.
* @return true if the call site is considered unstable.
*/
public boolean isCallSiteUnstable();
/**
* Returns a request stripped from runtime context arguments. Some language runtimes will include runtime-specific
* context parameters in their call sites as few arguments between 0th argument "this" and the normal arguments. If
* a linker does not recognize such contexts at all, or does not recognize the call site as one with its own
* context, it can ask for the alternative link request with context parameters and arguments removed, and link
* against it instead.
*
* @return the context-stripped request. If the link request does not have any language runtime specific context
* parameters, the same link request is returned.
*/
public LinkRequest withoutRuntimeContext();
/**
* Returns a request identical to this one with call site descriptor and arguments replaced with the ones specified.
*
* @param callSiteDescriptor the new call site descriptor
* @param arguments the new arguments
* @return a new request identical to this one, except with the call site descriptor and arguments replaced with the
* specified ones.
*/
public LinkRequest replaceArguments(CallSiteDescriptor callSiteDescriptor, Object[] arguments);
}