Clarifying record reflective support

Maurizio Cimadamore maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com
Tue Dec 3 17:23:37 UTC 2019


On 03/12/2019 17:15, Brian Goetz wrote:
> I am not even sure if “has a record attribute” isn’t overkill.  “Is a record class” is the more proper semantic specification, and it’s not clear to me that reflection api spec is the place to record these things.

Should reflection speak about 'has a record attribute XYZ' ? I don't 
think so (we agree here perhaps).

But I think that 4.7:

http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~gbierman/jep359/jep359-20191125/specs/records-jvms.html#jvms-4.7

looks pretty much spot on in listing the Record attribute in the same 
list as Signature, EnclosingMethod and other things that are relevant 
reflection-wise (hence the format-check).

Maurizio

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>> On Dec 3, 2019, at 12:12 PM, Alex Buckley <alex.buckley at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/3/2019 8:49 AM, Dan Smith wrote:
>>> So,
>>> Fine: "isRecord returns true if the class extends java.lang.Record
>>> and has a Record attribute." (a little more detailed than most
>>> reflection methods, but that's probably good)
>>> Overkill: "isRecord returns true if the class extends
>>> java.lang.Record and has a Record attribute that conforms to the
>>> following rules ..."
>> Yes. "has a Record attribute" is the most that the broadly-read API spec should admit about the class file. Even "has a *well-formed* Record attribute" would be too much, since it quickly devolves into your overkill scenario.
>>
>> Alex


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