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/* Instrumentation.java -- Implementation of this interface is used to
   instrument Java bytecode.
   Copyright (C) 2005  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
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package java.lang.instrument;
 
/**
 * An Instrumentation object has transformers that will
 * be called each time a class is defined or redefined.
 * The object is given to a <code>premain</code> function
 * that is called before the <code>main</code> function.
 *
 * @author Nicolas Geoffray (nicolas.geoffray@menlina.com)
 * @since 1.5
 */
public interface Instrumentation
{
 
  /**
   * Adds a <code>ClassFileTransformer</class> object
   * to the instrumentation. Each time a class is defined
   * or redefined, the <code>transform</code> method of the
   * <code>transformer</code> object is called.
   *
   * @param transformer the transformer to add
   * @throws NullPointerException if transformer is null
   */
  void addTransformer(ClassFileTransformer transformer);
 
  /**
   * Removes the given transformer from the set of transformers
   * this Instrumentation object has.
   *
   * @param transformer the transformer to remove
   * @return true if the transformer was found and removed, false if
   * the transformer was not found
   * @throws NullPointerException if transformer is null
   */
  boolean removeTransformer(ClassFileTransformer transformer);
 
  /**
   * Returns if the current JVM supports class redefinition
   *
   * @return true if the current JVM supports class redefinition
   */
  boolean isRedefineClassesSupported();
 
  /**
   * Redefine classes present in the definitions array, with
   * the corresponding class files.
   *
   * @param definitions an array of classes to redefine
   *
   * @throws ClassNotFoundException if a class cannot be found
   * @throws UnmodifiableClassException if a class cannot be modified
   * @throws UnsupportedOperationException if the JVM does not support
   * redefinition or the redefinition made unsupported changes
   * @throws ClassFormatError if a class file is not valid
   * @throws NoClassDefFoundError if a class name is not equal to the name
   * in the class file specified
   * @throws UnsupportedClassVersionError if the class file version numbers
   * are unsupported
   * @throws ClassCircularityError if circularity occured with the new
   * classes
   * @throws LinkageError if a linkage error occurs
   * @throws NullPointerException if the definitions array is null, or any
   * of its element
   *
   * @see #isRedefineClassesSupported()
   * @see #addTransformer(java.lang.instrument.ClassFileTransformer)
   * @see ClassFileTransformer
   */
  void redefineClasses(ClassDefinition[] definitions)
                     throws ClassNotFoundException,
                            UnmodifiableClassException;
 
 
  /**
   * Get all the classes loaded by the JVM.
   *
   * @return an array containing all the classes loaded by the JVM. The array
   * is empty if no class is loaded.
   */
  Class[] getAllLoadedClasses();
 
  /**
   * Get all the classes loaded by a given class loader
   *
   * @param loader the loader
   *
   * @return an array containing all the classes loaded by the given loader.
   * The array is empty if no class was loaded by the loader.
   */
  Class[] getInitiatedClasses(ClassLoader loader);
 
  /**
   * Get the size of an object. It contains the size of all fields.
   *
   * @param objectToSize the object
   * @return the size of the object
   * @throws NullPointerException if objectToSize is null.
   */
  long getObjectSize(Object objectToSize);
}