Record attribute binary format
Maurizio Cimadamore
maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com
Sat Oct 12 23:32:04 UTC 2019
On 12/10/2019 22:17, forax at univ-mlv.fr wrote:
> BTW, Should java.lang.Class have a method getCanonicalRecordConstructor() ?
This would be helpful, as the serialization use case already shows us
that people would want to infer the signature of the canonical
descriptor from the accessors return types. Which is doable, but a bit
tedious to do. I was also worried, if we drop the 'isVarargs' from the
component about how a client might reconstruct vararg-ness of the
constructor. In the reflective lookup that's not too important, after
all the runtime type of the components is the same, regardless of
varargs) - but for source reflection this might be more important to
reconstruct correctly - so I think it would be nice to have an official
'link' between the record/class and its canonical constructor, both in
core reflection, and source reflection.
Maurizio
>
> BTW2, if in the future we need some access flags on record components, we can still add a new attribute like MethodParameters on the Record attribute, so the current binary format is Ok.
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