01: /*
02:
03: Derby - Class org.apache.derby.iapi.services.loader.GeneratedClass
04:
05: Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
06: contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
07: this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
08: The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0
09: (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
10: the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
11:
12: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
13:
14: Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
15: distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
16: WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
17: See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
18: limitations under the License.
19:
20: */
21:
22: package org.apache.derby.iapi.services.loader;
23:
24: import org.apache.derby.iapi.error.StandardException;
25: import org.apache.derby.iapi.services.context.Context;
26:
27: /**
28: A meta-class that represents a generated class.
29: (Similar to java.lang.Class).
30: */
31:
32: public interface GeneratedClass {
33:
34: /**
35: Return the name of the generated class.
36: */
37: public String getName();
38:
39: /**
40: Return a new object that is an instance of the represented
41: class. The object will have been initialised by the no-arg
42: constructor of the represneted class.
43: (Similar to java.lang.Class.newInstance).
44:
45: @exception StandardException Standard Cloudscape error policy
46:
47: */
48: public Object newInstance(Context context) throws StandardException;
49:
50: /**
51: Obtain a handle to the method with the given name
52: that takes no arguments.
53:
54: @exception StandardException Standard Cloudscape error policy
55: */
56: public GeneratedMethod getMethod(String simpleName)
57: throws StandardException;
58:
59: /**
60: Return the class reload version that this class was built at.
61: */
62: public int getClassLoaderVersion();
63: }
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