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	package java.io;

	import java.lang.reflect.Field;
	import jdk.internal.reflect.CallerSensitive;
	import jdk.internal.reflect.Reflection;
	import sun.reflect.misc.ReflectUtil;

	/**
	* A description of a Serializable field from a Serializable class. An array
	* of ObjectStreamFields is used to declare the Serializable fields of a class.
	*
	* @author Mike Warres
	* @author Roger Riggs
	* @see ObjectStreamClass
	* @since 1.2
	*/
	public class ObjectStreamField
	implements Comparable<Object>
	{

	/** field name */
	private final String name;
	/** canonical JVM signature of field type, if given */
	private final String signature;
	/** field type (Object.class if unknown non-primitive type) */
	private final Class<?> type;
	/** lazily constructed signature for the type, if no explicit signature */
	private String typeSignature;
	/** whether or not to (de)serialize field values as unshared */
	private final boolean unshared;
	/** corresponding reflective field object, if any */
	private final Field field;
	/** offset of field value in enclosing field group */
	private int offset;

	/**
	* Create a Serializable field with the specified type. This field should
	* be documented with a <code>serialField</code> tag.
	*
	* @param name the name of the serializable field
	* @param type the <code>Class</code> object of the serializable field
	*/
	public ObjectStreamField(String name, Class<?> type) {
	this(name, type, false);
	}

	/**
	* Creates an ObjectStreamField representing a serializable field with the
	* given name and type. If unshared is false, values of the represented
	* field are serialized and deserialized in the default manner--if the
	* field is non-primitive, object values are serialized and deserialized as
	* if they had been written and read by calls to writeObject and
	* readObject. If unshared is true, values of the represented field are
	* serialized and deserialized as if they had been written and read by
	* calls to writeUnshared and readUnshared.
	*
	* @param name field name
	* @param type field type
	* @param unshared if false, write/read field values in the same manner
	* as writeObject/readObject; if true, write/read in the same
	* manner as writeUnshared/readUnshared
	* @since 1.4
	*/
	public ObjectStreamField(String name, Class<?> type, boolean unshared) {
	if (name == null) {
	throw new NullPointerException();
	}
	this.name = name;
	this.type = type;
	this.unshared = unshared;
	this.field = null;
	this.signature = null;
	}

	/**
	* Creates an ObjectStreamField representing a field with the given name,
	* signature and unshared setting.
	*/
	ObjectStreamField(String name, String signature, boolean unshared) {
	if (name == null) {
	throw new NullPointerException();
	}
	this.name = name;
	this.signature = signature.intern();
	this.unshared = unshared;
	this.field = null;

	switch (signature.charAt(0)) {
	case 'Z': type = Boolean.TYPE; break;
	case 'B': type = Byte.TYPE; break;
	case 'C': type = Character.TYPE; break;
	case 'S': type = Short.TYPE; break;
	case 'I': type = Integer.TYPE; break;
	case 'J': type = Long.TYPE; break;
	case 'F': type = Float.TYPE; break;
	case 'D': type = Double.TYPE; break;
	case 'L':
	case '[': type = Object.class; break;
	default: throw new IllegalArgumentException("illegal signature");
	}
	}

	/**
	* Returns JVM type signature for given primitive.
	*/
	private static String getPrimitiveSignature(Class<?> cl) {
	if (cl == Integer.TYPE)
	return "I";
	else if (cl == Byte.TYPE)
	return "B";
	else if (cl == Long.TYPE)
	return "J";
	else if (cl == Float.TYPE)
	return "F";
	else if (cl == Double.TYPE)
	return "D";
	else if (cl == Short.TYPE)
	return "S";
	else if (cl == Character.TYPE)
	return "C";
	else if (cl == Boolean.TYPE)
	return "Z";
	else if (cl == Void.TYPE)
	return "V";
	else
	throw new InternalError();
	}

	/**
	* Returns JVM type signature for given class.
	*/
	static String getClassSignature(Class<?> cl) {
	if (cl.isPrimitive()) {
	return getPrimitiveSignature(cl);
	} else {
	return appendClassSignature(new StringBuilder(), cl).toString();
	}
	}

	static StringBuilder appendClassSignature(StringBuilder sbuf, Class<?> cl) {
	while (cl.isArray()) {
	sbuf.append('[');
	cl = cl.getComponentType();
	}

	if (cl.isPrimitive()) {
	sbuf.append(getPrimitiveSignature(cl));
	} else {
	sbuf.append('L').append(cl.getName().replace('.', '/')).append(';');
	}

	return sbuf;
	}

	/**
	* Creates an ObjectStreamField representing the given field with the
	* specified unshared setting. For compatibility with the behavior of
	* earlier serialization implementations, a "showType" parameter is
	* necessary to govern whether or not a getType() call on this
	* ObjectStreamField (if non-primitive) will return Object.class (as
	* opposed to a more specific reference type).
	*/
	ObjectStreamField(Field field, boolean unshared, boolean showType) {
	this.field = field;
	this.unshared = unshared;
	name = field.getName();
	Class<?> ftype = field.getType();
	type = (showType \|\| ftype.isPrimitive()) ? ftype : Object.class;
	signature = getClassSignature(ftype).intern();
	}

	/**
	* Get the name of this field.
	*
	* @return a <code>String</code> representing the name of the serializable
	* field
	*/
	public String getName() {
	return name;
	}

	/**
	* Get the type of the field. If the type is non-primitive and this
	* <code>ObjectStreamField</code> was obtained from a deserialized {@link
	* ObjectStreamClass} instance, then <code>Object.class</code> is returned.
	* Otherwise, the <code>Class</code> object for the type of the field is
	* returned.
	*
	* @return a <code>Class</code> object representing the type of the
	* serializable field
	*/
	@CallerSensitive
	public Class<?> getType() {
	if (System.getSecurityManager() != null) {
	Class<?> caller = Reflection.getCallerClass();
	if (ReflectUtil.needsPackageAccessCheck(caller.getClassLoader(), type.getClassLoader())) {
	ReflectUtil.checkPackageAccess(type);
	}
	}
	return type;
	}

	/**
	* Returns character encoding of field type. The encoding is as follows:
	* <blockquote><pre>
	* B byte
	* C char
	* D double
	* F float
	* I int
	* J long
	* L class or interface
	* S short
	* Z boolean
	* [ array
	* </pre></blockquote>
	*
	* @return the typecode of the serializable field
	*/
	// REMIND: deprecate?
	public char getTypeCode() {
	return getSignature().charAt(0);
	}

	/**
	* Return the JVM type signature.
	*
	* @return null if this field has a primitive type.
	*/
	// REMIND: deprecate?
	public String getTypeString() {
	return isPrimitive() ? null : getSignature();
	}

	/**
	* Offset of field within instance data.
	*
	* @return the offset of this field
	* @see #setOffset
	*/
	// REMIND: deprecate?
	public int getOffset() {
	return offset;
	}

	/**
	* Offset within instance data.
	*
	* @param offset the offset of the field
	* @see #getOffset
	*/
	// REMIND: deprecate?
	protected void setOffset(int offset) {
	this.offset = offset;
	}

	/**
	* Return true if this field has a primitive type.
	*
	* @return true if and only if this field corresponds to a primitive type
	*/
	// REMIND: deprecate?
	public boolean isPrimitive() {
	char tcode = getTypeCode();
	return ((tcode != 'L') && (tcode != '['));
	}

	/**
	* Returns boolean value indicating whether or not the serializable field
	* represented by this ObjectStreamField instance is unshared.
	*
	* @return {@code true} if this field is unshared
	*
	* @since 1.4
	*/
	public boolean isUnshared() {
	return unshared;
	}

	/**
	* Compare this field with another <code>ObjectStreamField</code>. Return
	* -1 if this is smaller, 0 if equal, 1 if greater. Types that are
	* primitives are "smaller" than object types. If equal, the field names
	* are compared.
	*/
	// REMIND: deprecate?
	public int compareTo(Object obj) {
	ObjectStreamField other = (ObjectStreamField) obj;
	boolean isPrim = isPrimitive();
	if (isPrim != other.isPrimitive()) {
	return isPrim ? -1 : 1;
	}
	return name.compareTo(other.name);
	}

	/**
	* Return a string that describes this field.
	*/
	public String toString() {
	return getSignature() + ' ' + name;
	}

	/**
	* Returns field represented by this ObjectStreamField, or null if
	* ObjectStreamField is not associated with an actual field.
	*/
	Field getField() {
	return field;
	}

	/**
	* Returns JVM type signature of field (similar to getTypeString, except
	* that signature strings are returned for primitive fields as well).
	*/
	String getSignature() {
	if (signature != null) {
	return signature;
	}

	String sig = typeSignature;
	// This lazy calculation is safe since signature can be null iff one
	// of the public constructors are used, in which case type is always
	// initialized to the exact type we want the signature to represent.
	if (sig == null) {
	typeSignature = sig = getClassSignature(type).intern();
	}
	return sig;
	}
	}

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