As reported earlier, I'm using WadlApplication and WadlResource in Restlet 1.1.1 and Sun JDK 1.6.
I've found that the non-public classes extending Resource cause WadlApplication to fail in Java reflection attempting to invoke method "allowGet()", due to Sun bug http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4533479 <http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4533479> which is marked as a duplicate of a similar issue at http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4071957 <http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4071957> Details: class MyResource extends SomeWadlResource { public MyResource(Context context, Request request, Response response); public allowGet() { return true; } public Representation represent() { ... } } Note that class MyResource is not public, but allowGet() is public. I've made MyResource package protected to prevent direct invocation of Resources by other packages. Curiously, I have not seen any problem with normal Restlet invocations, only with WadlApplication's use. I haven't examined why this is the case, but it's possible there may be other bugs due to this issue. The error I get is org.restlet/org/java/Handler.java: 344 if (method != null) { 345 try { 346 => result = method.invoke(this, args); 347 } catch (Exception e) { 348 getLogger().log( 349 Level.WARNING, 350 "Couldn't invoke the handle method for \"" + method 351 + "\"", e); 352 } java.lang.IllegalAccessException: Class org.restlet.Handler can not access a member of class MyResource with modifiers "public" at sun.reflect.Reflection.ensureMemberAccess(Reflection.java:65) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:588) at org.restlet.Handler.invoke(Handler.java:346) The invocation is from getAllowedMethods(), in WadlResource: public void describe(String path, ResourceInfo info) { info.setPath(path); // Introspect the current resource to detect the allowed methods final List<Method> methodsList = new ArrayList<Method>(); methodsList.addAll(getAllowedMethods()); The issue appears to be that java.lang.reflect.Method does not allow access to public methods of package-protected classes, whereas regular method invocation does. In other words, doing resource.allowGet() would be legal, but doing the same call by reflection gives the IllegalAccessError. The Sun bug report discussion centers on a possible future change in classfile format to provide more information from the compiler for reflection; however, there is a simple workaround listed in Bug 4533479 and I've described it below. Recommended Fix: In bug 4533479, user arro239 posted workaround code for obtaining the superclass's java.lang.reflect.Method of the same name and signature and using it instead, and walking the tree upwards to find a public class or interface. That fix works in this case. There may be other possible fixes that I haven't explored, so I'd like to ask for anyone with experience in this area to make suggestions. Below is a recommended change to org.restlet/org/restlet/Handler.java using arro239's sample. /** * Updates the set of methods with the ones allowed by this resource * instance. * * @param allowedMethods * The set to update. */ private void updateAllowedMethods(Set<Method> allowedMethods) { for (final java.lang.reflect.Method orig_classMethod : getClass() .getMethods()) { final java.lang.reflect.Method classMethod = fixJava4071957(orig_classMethod); if (classMethod.getName().startsWith("allow") && (classMethod.getParameterTypes().length == 0)) { if ((Boolean) invoke(classMethod)) { final Method allowedMethod = Method.valueOf(classMethod .getName().substring(5)); allowedMethods.add(allowedMethod); } } } } // from http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4071957 <http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4071957> private static java.lang.reflect.Method fixJava4071957(java.lang.reflect.Method method) { while (!java.lang.reflect.Modifier.isPublic(method.getDeclaringClass().getModi fiers())) { try { method = method.getDeclaringClass().getSuperclass().getMethod(method.getName(), method.getParameterTypes()); } catch (NoSuchMethodException e) { throw new IllegalStateException(e); } } return method; } Leigh. ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=1098088
