java String 的值传递问题

今天对String类的值传递问题进行一番研究，终于明白是为什么了。

之前一直听说String是一个比较特殊类，String在作为方法的实参传递的是值，而不是引用。但是为什么会这样？这就要从String的源码来分析了。

public String(String original) {
	int size = original.count;
	char[] originalValue = original.value;
	char[] v;
  	if (originalValue.length > size) {
 	    // The array representing the String is bigger than the new
 	    // String itself.  Perhaps this constructor is being called
 	    // in order to trim the baggage, so make a copy of the array.
            int off = original.offset;
            v = Arrays.copyOfRange(originalValue, off, off+size);
 	} else {
 	    // The array representing the String is the same
 	    // size as the String, so no point in making a copy.
	    v = originalValue;
 	}
	this.offset = 0;
	this.count = size;
	this.value = v;
    }

this.value就是存放的我们的字符串。但是这个this.value 是什么样的成员变量呢？接着往下看

 /** The value is used for character storage. */
   <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> private final char value[];</span>

    /** The offset is the first index of the storage that is used. */
    private final int offset;

    /** The count is the number of characters in the String. */
    private final int count;

    /** Cache the hash code for the string */
    private int hash; // Default to 0

    /** use serialVersionUID from JDK 1.0.2 for interoperability */
    private static final long serialVersionUID = -6849794470754667710L;

“final”就是这个罪魁祸首导致了String的值一旦被初始化就不能再改变了！所以我猜测String作为实参传递仍然是引用。只是在方法内部改变String类型形参的值时，并不是把原来的String对象的value改变了，而是又重新new了一个新的String对象。