- All Superinterfaces:
DynamicMBean
The DiagnosticCommandMBean
is registered to the
platform MBeanServer as are other platform MBeans.
The ObjectName
for uniquely identifying
the diagnostic MBean within an MBeanServer is:
com.sun.management:type=DiagnosticCommand
This MBean is a DynamicMBean
and also a NotificationEmitter
.
The DiagnosticCommandMBean
is generated at runtime and is subject to
modifications during the lifetime of the Java virtual machine.
A diagnostic command is represented as an operation of
the DiagnosticCommandMBean
interface. Each diagnostic command has:
- the diagnostic command name which is the name being referenced in the HotSpot Virtual Machine
- the MBean operation name which is the name generated for the diagnostic command operation invocation. The MBean operation name is implementation dependent
- All characters from the first one to the first dot are set to be lower-case characters
- Every dot or underline character is removed and the following character is set to be an upper-case character
- All other characters are copied without modification
The diagnostic command name is always provided with the meta-data on the
operation in a field named dcmd.name
(see below).
A diagnostic command may or may not support options or arguments.
All the operations return String
and either take
no parameter for operations that do not support any option or argument,
or take a String[]
parameter for operations that support at least
one option or argument.
Each option or argument must be stored in a single String.
Options or arguments split across several String instances are not supported.
The distinction between options and arguments: options are identified by the option name while arguments are identified by their position in the command line. Options and arguments are processed in the order of the array passed to the invocation method.
Like any operation of a dynamic MBean, each of these operations is
described by MBeanOperationInfo
instance. Here's the values returned by this object:
getName()
returns the operation name generated from the diagnostic command namegetDescription()
returns the diagnostic command description (the same as the one return in the 'help' command)getImpact()
returnsACTION_INFO
getReturnType()
returnsjava.lang.String
getDescriptor()
returns a Descriptor instance (see below)
The Descriptor
is a collection of fields containing additional
meta-data for a JMX element. A field is a name and an associated value.
The additional meta-data provided for an operation associated with a
diagnostic command are described in the table below:
Name | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
dcmd.name | String | The original diagnostic command name (not the operation name) |
dcmd.description | String | The diagnostic command description |
dcmd.help | String | The full help message for this diagnostic command (same output as the one produced by the 'help' command) |
dcmd.vmImpact | String | The impact of the diagnostic command, this value is the same as the one printed in the 'impact' section of the help message of the diagnostic command, and it is different from the getImpact() of the MBeanOperationInfo |
dcmd.enabled | boolean | True if the diagnostic command is enabled, false otherwise |
dcmd.permissionClass | String | Some diagnostic command might require a specific permission to be executed, in addition to the MBeanPermission to invoke their associated MBean operation. This field returns the fully qualified name of the permission class or null if no permission is required |
dcmd.permissionName | String | The fist argument of the permission required to execute this diagnostic command or null if no permission is required |
dcmd.permissionAction | String | The second argument of the permission required to execute this diagnostic command or null if the permission constructor has only one argument (like the ManagementPermission) or if no permission is required |
dcmd.arguments | Descriptor | A Descriptor instance containing the descriptions of options and arguments supported by the diagnostic command (see below) |
The description of parameters (options or arguments) of a diagnostic command is provided within a Descriptor instance. In this Descriptor, each field name is a parameter name, and each field value is itself a Descriptor instance. The fields provided in this second Descriptor instance are described in the table below:
Name | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
dcmd.arg.name | String | The name of the parameter |
dcmd.arg.type | String | The type of the parameter. The returned String is the name of a type recognized by the diagnostic command parser. These types are not Java types and are implementation dependent. |
dcmd.arg.description | String | The parameter description |
dcmd.arg.isMandatory | boolean | True if the parameter is mandatory, false otherwise |
dcmd.arg.isOption | boolean | True if the parameter is an option, false if it is an argument |
dcmd.arg.isMultiple | boolean | True if the parameter can be specified several times, false otherwise |
When the set of diagnostic commands currently supported by the Java
Virtual Machine is modified, the DiagnosticCommandMBean
emits
a Notification
with a
type of
"jmx.mbean.info.changed"
and a
userData that
is the new MBeanInfo
.
- Since:
- 1.8
-
Method Summary
Methods declared in interface javax.management.DynamicMBean
getAttribute, getAttributes, getMBeanInfo, invoke, setAttribute, setAttributes