7.2.5 ModelMethod Attribute

This attribute contains information about the model methods declared in the class. The format of the attribute is as follows:

     ModelMethod_attribute {
       u2 attribute_name_index;
       u4 attribute_length;
       u2 methods_count;
       method_info methods[methods_count];
     }

The meaning of the fields is as follows:

• attribute_name_index - index in the constant pool of the attribute name (org.bmlspecs.ModelMethod)
• attribute_length - length in bytes of the whole structure
• methods_count - number of methods in the methods table
• methods - the methods table, where each element has the method_info structure (extended with BML-specific attributes), see Methods Data Structure and Method Attributes. The BML flags of model methods are stored in the MethodSpecification Attribute (see MethodSpecification Attribute). The only allowed flags are BML_NON_NULL, BML_NULLABLE. All other flags must be cleared. Only one of BML_NON_NULL, BML_NULLABLE can be set for any given method.

Note that model methods that are part of an interface do not have to be static, like Java methods. This information is represented by the unset ACC_STATIC flag in the access_flags attribute of the method_info structure of the given method.