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package com.sun.org.apache.bcel.internal.classfile;
/**
* Unknown (non-standard) attributes may be read via user-defined factory
* objects that can be registered with the Attribute.addAttributeReader
* method. These factory objects should implement this interface.
*
* @see Attribute
* @version $Id$
* @since 6.0
*/
public interface UnknownAttributeReader {
/**
* When this attribute reader is added via the static method Attribute.addAttributeReader,
* an attribute name is associated with it. As the class file parser parses attributes,
* it will call various AttributeReaders based on the name of the attributes it is constructing.
*
* @param name_index An index into the constant pool, indexing a ConstantUtf8
* that represents the name of the attribute.
* @param length The length of the data contained in the attribute. This is written
* into the constant pool and should agree with what the factory expects the length to be.
* @param file This is the data input that the factory needs to read its data from.
* @param constant_pool This is the constant pool associated with the Attribute that we are constructing.
*
* @return The user-defined AttributeReader should take this data and use
* it to construct an attribute. In the case of errors, a null can be
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