Creating a new field with asm 4

Question

This is the code im using

    String fieldName = "lock";
    String fieldType = "Ljava/util/concurrent/locks/Lock;";
    Object initValue = new ReentrantLock();

    cw.visitField(ACC_PUBLIC, fieldName, fieldType, null, initValue).visitEnd();

Im attempting to add a line of "Lock lock = new ReentrantLock();" but asm is throwing a error

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: value class java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantLock at org.objectweb.asm.ClassWriter.a(Unknown Source)

Answer 1

You cannot pass an object as an initial value. You need to generate the code which will create the object when the code is run, not when you generated the code.