On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 13:23:51 GMT, Brian Goetz <briango...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> 5 Constant Pool entries, namely ConstantDynamicEntry, InvokeDynamicEntry, 
>> FieldRefEntry, MethodRefEntry, and InterfaceMethodRefEntry should have a 
>> typeSymbol() API to return the nominal/symbolic descriptor (ClassDesc or 
>> MethodTypeDesc).
>> 
>> This API is not added to NameAndTypeEntry itself, for a NameAndTypeEntry 
>> only knows if its type should be a field or method type from the other 
>> entries that refer to it.
>> 
>> This is one of the issues discussed in this mailing list thread: 
>> https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/classfile-api-dev/2023-June/000381.html
>
> src/java.base/share/classes/jdk/internal/classfile/constantpool/InvokeDynamicEntry.java
>  line 46:
> 
>> 44:     default MethodTypeDesc typeSymbol() {
>> 45:         return Util.methodTypeSymbol(nameAndType());
>> 46:     }
> 
> Similar comment as with CondyEntry -- reduce usage of Util::methodTypeSymbol 
> in this class

(Would like to do the same in various ::count methods, but unfortunately 
MemberRefEntry is too general; would have to rejigger the various XxxRefEntry 
types.)

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14706#discussion_r1246619062

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