1/* 2 * Copyright (C) 2010 The Android Open Source Project 3 * 4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 7 * 8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 9 * 10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 14 * limitations under the License. 15 */ 16 17package dalvik.system.profiler; 18 19import java.io.IOException; 20 21/** 22 * The {@code ThreadSampler} interfaces allows a profiler to choose 23 * between portable and VM specific implementations of thread 24 * sampling. 25 */ 26public interface ThreadSampler { 27 28 /** 29 * Used to specify the maximum stack depth to collect. 30 */ 31 public void setDepth(int depth); 32 33 /** 34 * Return a stack trace for the current thread limited by the 35 * maximum depth specified by {@link #setDepth setDepth}. May 36 * return null if no sample is availble for the thread, which may 37 * happen in cases such as thread termination. The resulting array 38 * should be copied before the next call to {@code getStackTrace} 39 * if the caller wants to use the results, since the {@code 40 * ThreadSampler} may reuse the array. Note that the elements 41 * themselves are immutable and do not need to be copied. 42 */ 43 public StackTraceElement[] getStackTrace(Thread thread); 44} 45