On 10/7/2013 11:34 AM, Christian Thalinger wrote:
Unfortunate but I understand. It might be a good idea to add a
getCallerClass(-1) call to the test case.
The VM should throw an exception if JVM_GetCallerClass is called by any
method other than Reflection.getCallerClass(). It's a good idea to add
such test case.
thanks
Mandy
On Oct 7, 2013, at 1:24 AM, Mandy Chung <mandy.ch...@oracle.com> wrote:
JDK 8 was feature complete in June and there just isn't sufficient time
remaining to get agreement and feedback on an API to examine the caller frames.
To that end, I propose to restore the old unsupported
Reflection.getCallerClass(int) and that we will look to define a standard API
for JDK 9.
Webrev at:
http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk8/webrevs/8025799/
It remains to be an unsupported API and JDK should not use this method and it's
not annotated with @CallerSensitive. I considered detecting if this method is
called by a system class (loaded by null loader) and throw an error. I decided
to minimize the compatibility risk in case if there is any existing code added
to the bootclasspath depending on this private API.
Thanks
Mandy
