[code-reflection] RFR: Cleanup and consolidate `ReflectMethods` [v2]

Maurizio Cimadamore mcimadamore at openjdk.org
Fri Jun 27 12:28:11 UTC 2025


> This PR applies some minor cleanups to `ReflectMethods` and its companion classes.
> 
> * A symbol was moved from `CodeReflectionSymbols` to `Symtab` as it was a method in java.base (MH::lookup)
> * `CodeModelToAST` was merged with `ReflectMethods` (and renamed to `CodeModelTranslator`)
> * To facilitate the above, all the conversion from model types to javac types (and back) is centralized in `ReflectMethods`
> * `ReflectMethod.BodyScanner` is now a regular scanner -- the filtering logic is not needed since all the various relevant trees are supported
> 
> There are several `@@@` comments in the code -- for now I left them in place.
> 
> I believe there are three main areas for subsequent cleanup and/or consolidation:
> 
> ##### Quotable vs. Quoted
> 
> The experiments with lambda to `Quoted` conversions were a first stab on how we might want to support code models in lambdas. This requires ad-hoc type system support (in `Attr`), and `ReflectMethods` does not support method references with this strategy. We should consider whether to keep this, given that we seem to have given `Quotable` a more prominent role in the API (and the language support for `Quotable` is much more in sync with what we do for e.g. serialziable lambdas).
> 
> ##### OpBuilder vs. Text
> 
> `ReflectMethods` still supports two code generation strategies. This doesn't add a lot of additional code, but I wonder if we really need this.
> 
> ##### Inner class support
> 
> The support for member inner classes and local/anonymous inner classes is a bit spotty. The generated model will emit correct code when e.g. creating an inner class -- that is, the model will correctly pass the enclosing this and captured values (where needed).
> 
> But, when translating e.g. a method in an inner class, references to enclosing this, or captured values will not be treated specially -- e.g. `ReflectMethods` will assume such elements to be "in scope". In other words, I have very little confidence that, e.g. we can take a code model corresponding to a method inside an inner class and e.g. generate bytecode for it.
> 
> I wonder if it would be better, for the time being, to just skip reflectable methods/constructors/lambdas defined inside a non-static inner class (so as to provide a cleaner boundary between what we support and what we don't support).

Maurizio Cimadamore has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:

  Cleanup `BodyScanner::loadVar`

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Changes:
  - all: https://git.openjdk.org/babylon/pull/468/files
  - new: https://git.openjdk.org/babylon/pull/468/files/d99fc0b3..8fc1050a

Webrevs:
 - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=babylon&pr=468&range=01
 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=babylon&pr=468&range=00-01

  Stats: 3 lines in 1 file changed: 0 ins; 1 del; 2 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/babylon/pull/468.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/babylon.git pull/468/head:pull/468

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/babylon/pull/468


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