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Paul King commented on GROOVY-8385:
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My suggestion would be to add a couple of very small examples (the smaller the
better) which trip up the obfuscator with instructions on how to reproduce.
That's the best way to get an existing committer to have time to make some
small progress. If we are unlucky we might hit one of the trickier cases and
progress might still be slow/difficult but we might be lucky and be able to
make some small improvements. If we can get one or two simple cases fixed,
other contributors might be able to follow the pattern and make further
progress.
> CompileStatic: Improved method call/property access Java compatibility for
> Minecraft Forge obfuscation support
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> Key: GROOVY-8385
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-8385
> Project: Groovy
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: bytecode
> Reporter: mgroovy
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: Forge, Java, JavaCompatibility, Minecraft, Modding
>
> * Even with @CompileStatic the Groovy compiler creates bytecode for method
> calls / property access which is dynamic in nature.
> * This means that e.g. Minecraft Forge's obfuscator does not pick up the
> calls in the generated bytecode, which means they do not get obfuscated,
> which in turn makes the code fail when executed in Minecraft.
> * This effectively makes it nearly impossible to write Minecraft mods with
> Groovy, which in turn is a wasted opportunity to get people involved with
> Groovy early on.
> * Possible approaches to improve the situation:
> ## Improve on a fundamental level: According to [~paulk] only a few calls are
> required to be done dynamically for Groovy functionality to work as expected
> under @CompileStatic.
> *** The problem seems to be that it could be hard to be a 100% sure no edge
> case is overlooked, as to not break @CompileStatic in situations where e.g.
> no 100% Java-call-compatibility is needed.
> ## Improve through newly introduced @CompileStatic parameters
> *** => Static method call / property access bytecode is generated for method
> code / all class methods repectively (with possible exceptions for the know
> cases mentioned above).
> ## Improve through newly introduced @ObfuscationJavaCompatibility annotation
> that can be put on a method or class
> *** behavior same as for @CompileStatic parameters above
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