Code Review Request: More tests for 7184826: (reflect) Add support for Project Lambda concepts in core reflection

[Joel Borggren-Franck]

Hi Amy, Tristan,

I'm not a Reviewer kind of reviewer, but I've started to look at the
code and can sponsor this.

Some comments on test/java/lang/reflect/Method/invoke/DefaultStaticTest.java:

As there are a lot of non-public top-level classes perhaps this test
should be in it own directory.

It is very hard to read the data table:

292             {interface1.class, 1, 1, new Object1(), new Object[]{},
293                 new Object[]{}, "interface1", null},

I believe you should move the methodsNum constant and the declMethods
num constant to an annotation on the interface/class in question. For
example:

@MyTestData(numMethods=1, declMethods=1)
41 interface interface1 {
42     @DefaultMethod(isDefault = true)
43     @StaticMethod(isStatic = false)
44     @ReturnValue(value = "interface1.defaultMethod")
45     default String defaultMethod(){ return "interface1.defaultMethod"; };
46 }

That way it is much easier to inspect that the constants are right.

The same can probably be done with the return values encoded.

Instead of all these "new Objects[] {}" can't you create a field,

Object [] EMPTY_PARAMETERS = new Object() {}

and reuse it?

That way it will be much easier to verify that the encoded test data is
correct.

I'll comment on the other tests shortly. 

cheers
/Joel

On 2013-06-13, Amy Lu wrote:
> This has been pending on review for long ... Please help to review.
> I also need a sponsor for this.
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> /Amy
> 
> On 5/23/13 10:48 PM, Amy Lu wrote:
> >Please help to review:
> >
> >More tests for 7184826: (reflect) Add support for Project Lambda
> >concepts in core reflection
> >
> >This includes:
> >1. improvement for existing tests with more situations
> >2. Test for invoking interface default/static method by j.l.r.Method
> >3. Test for invoking interface default/static method by MethodHandle
> >
> >https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5812451/yl153753/7184826/webrev.00/index.html
> >
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Amy
>