The symbolic constants API (`java.lang.constant`) was designed, in part, to provide bytecode parsing and generation APIs with a validated, common, symbolic form for constants in Java class files.
Constants API already provides models for all *loadable constants*, however no nominal descriptors modelling modules and packages are available.
Constants API should provide the modules and packages nominal descriptors with validation.
Constants API already provides models for all *loadable constants*, however no nominal descriptors modelling modules and packages are available.
Constants API should provide the modules and packages nominal descriptors with validation.
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JDK-8306730 Add nominal descriptors of modules and packages to Constants API
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