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Module java.base
Package java.lang.runtime

# Class SwitchBootstraps

java.lang.Object
java.lang.runtime.SwitchBootstraps

public class SwitchBootstraps extends Object
`SwitchBootstraps` is a preview API of the Java platform.
Programs can only use `SwitchBootstraps` when preview features are enabled.
Preview features may be removed in a future release, or upgraded to permanent features of the Java platform.
Bootstrap methods for linking `invokedynamic` call sites that implement the selection functionality of the `switch` statement. The bootstraps take additional static arguments corresponding to the `case` labels of the `switch`, implicitly numbered sequentially from `[0..N)`.

Since:
  17

- ## Method Summary

  Modifier and Type
  Method
  Description
  `static CallSite`
  `typeSwitch (MethodHandles.Lookup lookup, String invocationName, MethodType invocationType, Object... labels)`
  Bootstrap method for linking an `invokedynamic` call site that implements a `switch` on a target of a reference type.

  ### Methods declared in class java.lang.Object

  `clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

- ## Method Details

  - ### typeSwitch

    public static CallSite typeSwitch (MethodHandles.Lookup lookup, String invocationName, MethodType invocationType, Object... labels) throws Throwable
    Bootstrap method for linking an `invokedynamic` call site that implements a `switch` on a target of a reference type. The static arguments are an array of case labels which must be non-null and of type `String` or `Integer` or `Class`.

    The type of the returned `CallSite`'s method handle will have a return type of `int`. It has two parameters: the first argument will be an `Object` instance (`target`) and the second will be `int` (`restart`).

    If the `target` is `null`, then the method of the call site returns -1.

    If the `target` is not `null`, then the method of the call site returns the index of the first element in the `labels` array starting from the `restart` index matching one of the following conditions:

    - the element is of type `Class` that is assignable from the target's class; or
    - the element is of type `String` or `Integer` and equals to the target.

    If no element in the `labels` array matches the target, then the method of the call site return the length of the `labels` array.

    Parameters:
      `lookup` - Represents a lookup context with the accessibility privileges of the caller. When used with `invokedynamic`, this is stacked automatically by the VM.
      `invocationName` - unused
      `invocationType` - The invocation type of the `CallSite` with two parameters, a reference type, an `int`, and `int` as a return type.
      `labels` - case labels - `String` and `Integer` constants and `Class` instances, in any combination
    Returns:
      a `CallSite` returning the first matching element as described above
    Throws:
      `NullPointerException` - if any argument is `null`
      `IllegalArgumentException` - if any element in the labels array is null, if the invocation type is not not a method type of first parameter of a reference type, second parameter of type `int` and with `int` as its return type, or if `labels` contains an element that is not of type `String`, `Integer` or `Class`.
      `Throwable` - if there is any error linking the call site
    See Java Virtual Machine Specification :
      4.4.6 The CONSTANT_NameAndType_info Structure
      4.4.10 The CONSTANT_Dynamic_info and CONSTANT_InvokeDynamic_info Structures