Package org.eclipse.mat.snapshot.model

Interface IInstance

All Superinterfaces:

IObject, Serializable

All Known Subinterfaces:

IClassLoader

All Known Implementing Classes:

ClassLoaderImpl, InstanceImpl

public interface IInstance
extends IObject

Interface for a plain vanilla object instance in the heap dump.

No Implement:

Nested Class Summary

Nested classes/interfaces inherited from interface org.eclipse.mat.snapshot.model.IObject

IObject.Type

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
Field	getField(String name)	Returns the field identified by the name.
List<Field>	getFields()	Returns all fields of the object.

Methods inherited from interface org.eclipse.mat.snapshot.model.IObject

getClassSpecificName, getClazz, getDisplayName, getGCRootInfo, getObjectAddress, getObjectId, getOutboundReferences, getRetainedHeapSize, getSnapshot, getTechnicalName, getUsedHeapSize, resolveValue

Method Details

getFields

List<Field> getFields()

Returns all fields of the object.

Fields are ordered in such a way, that first fields defined in the current class and then fields of the super class and its super classes are returned. This order is important to know, if a class declares a field by the same name as the class it inherits from.

Returns:

a list of the fields

getField

Field getField(String name)

Returns the field identified by the name.

If declares a member variable by the same name as the parent class does, then the result of this method is undefined.

Parameters:

name - the name of the field

Returns:

the field