JDK 8 code review request for 7007535: (reflect) Please generalize Constructor and Method

[Peter Jones]

Hi Joe,

On Jul 15, 2011, at 1:49 AM, David Holmes wrote:
> On 14/07/2011 12:21 PM, joe.darcy at oracle.com wrote:
>> Please code review my JDK 8 changes for
>> 
>> 7007535: (reflect) Please generalize Constructor and Method
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/7007535.3
>> 
>> To summarize the changes, a new superclass is defined to capture the common
>> functionality of java.lang.reflect.Method and java.lang.reflect.Constructor.
>> That superclass is named "Executable" along the lines of
>> javax.lang.model.ExecutableElement, which models constructors and methods in
>> the JSR 269 language model.
>> 
>> Both specification and implementation code are shared. To preserve the right
>> @since behavior, it is common that in Method/Constructor the javadoc for a
>> method will now look like:
>> 
>> /**
>> * {@inheritDoc}
>> * @since 1.5
>> */
> 
> Unless they have fixed/changed javadoc (entirely possible) it used to be that the above would not cause @throws declarations for unchecked exceptions to be inherited - you have/had to explicitly repeat them as:
> 
> @throws <exception-type> {@inheritDoc}

Yes, that would seem to be needed for some of the inherited getters of generics info, which specify unchecked exception types.

>> Since Executable is being created in JDK 8, it would be incorrect for
>> methods in that class to have an @since of 1.5; adding the @since in
>> Method/Constructor preserves the right information.

In Executable.java, getAnnotation and getDeclaredAnnotations do have "@since 1.5"-- oversight?

In Constructor.java and Method.java, getExceptionTypes has "@since 1.5", but that method has existed in those classes since 1.1.

In Executable.java:

 216     /**
 217      * Returns an array of {@code Class} objects that represent the formal
 218      * parameter types, in declaration order, of the method
 219      * represented by this {@code Method} object.  Returns an array of length
 220      * 0 if the underlying method takes no parameters.
 221      *
 222      * @return the parameter types for the method this object
 223      * represents

At least "{@code Method}" needs to be generalized, and perhaps all occurrences of "method"?

Cheers,

-- Peter