Thanks!!
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 2:14 PM Jochen Theodorou <blackd...@gmx.org> wrote:
> On 14.07.20 19:55, Blake McBride wrote:
> [...]
> > static Object myMethod(Object ... args) {
> [...]
> > Method methp = groovyClass.getMethod("myMethod", ca);
> > Object r = methp.invoke(null,4,5); // Here is where the error
> occurs
> > int x =1;// place for a breakpoint
> [...]
> > At the indicated location, I am getting the error:
> >
> > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: wrong number of arguments
> >
> > I have tried a veriety of alternatives with no success. Any help would
> > sure be appreciated.
>
> If you call a varargs method in Java, the compiler is normally boxing
> the arguments for you into an array. This means myMethod(4,5) becomes
> myMethod(new Object[]{4,5}) as per the Java compiler. Groovy does the
> something similar either by compiler (static mode) or at runtime
> (dynamic mode).
>
> But you are executing the method by reflection, which means you have no
> support of the Groovy runtime or any compiler. In fact reflection does
> not know varargs. That means methp.invoke(null,4,5) assumes you want to
> invoke myMethod(int,int). Now the difficulty comes from that method
> having varargs itself, but for the invoke itself, not for what it is
> invoking. That means methp.invoke(null,4,5) becomes as per compiler
> methp.invoke(null,new Object[]{4,5}). What you really need is an
> Object[] in the Object[]:
>
> methp.invoke(null, new Object[]{new Object[]{4,5}})
>
> If myMethod would take for example String... instead of Object... it
> would be
>
>
> methp.invoke(null, new Object[]{new String[]{"4","5"}})
>
> and maybe it becomes even more clear if we wanted to invoke
> myMethod(int, String...):
>
> methp.invoke(null, new Object[]{
> 1, new String[]{"a","b"}
> })
>
> bye Jochen
>
