[constables] RFR of constants API

[Maurizio Cimadamore]

The [Type, Method, Field]Descriptor API looks neat - I have two comments 
on this:

* I believe the name descriptor is going to be confusing with the rest 
of the API, as there are a lot of classes whose name ends with 'Desc'

* we discussed internally to sprinkle parameters on 
java/lang/reflect/Member (e.g. have a type parameter T <: 
TypeDescriptor<T>, and have a method type() which returns a T). That way 
we could have Member to be a full live representation of a reflective 
member, including access to owner (a Class<?>), name (String) and, 
finally, a type (some TypeDescriptor T).

Maurizio


On 04/05/18 20:09, Vicente Romero wrote:
> please review another iteration of the constants API at [3]. This one 
> removes the Lookup argument from describeConstable() plus adds 
> interfaces FieldDescriptor, TypeDescriptor and MethodDescriptor
>
> Thanks,
> Vicente
>
> [3] 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vromero/constant.api/webrev.01/constants.api.patch
>
> On 05/01/2018 01:43 PM, Brian Goetz wrote:
>> To be clear: we’re asking for an *API review*. No need to review the 
>> code right now, just the API and the specs.
>>
>>> On May 1, 2018, at 6:32 PM, Vicente Romero 
>>> <vicente.romero at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Please review also the related CSR: 
>>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8202031
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Vicente
>>>
>>> On 04/27/2018 01:31 PM, Vicente Romero wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Please review the current proposal of the constants API, which are 
>>>> nominal descriptor types defined in pkg java.lang.invoke.constant. 
>>>> The code can be found at [1]. This API is being developed in the 
>>>> context of JEP 303: Intrinsics for the LDC and INVOKEDYNAMIC 
>>>> Instructions [2]
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance for your comments,
>>>> Vicente
>>>>
>>>> [1] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~vromero/constant.api/webrev.00
>>>> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/303
>