Alan Bateman wrote:
On 09/07/2016 09:57, Simon Nash wrote:
Is it really a good idea to encourage packages that currently use
reflection
to access non-exported private fields (an official part of the Java
API) to
change to using internal APIs? This seems like a step backwards to me.
I didn't suggest that. I was just pointing out that some of the 3rd
party serialization libraries that we've come across are based on Unsafe
and ReflectionFactory and the latter is specifically on critical
internal API for that reason.
-Alan
Yes, I understand. My point was that these APIs might in some cases
become a substitute for reflective access to non-exported private fields
if the latter is prohibited,
Simon
