Classes on the stack trace (was: getElementClass/StackTraceElement, was: @CallerSensitive public API, was: sun.reflect.Reflection.getCallerClass)

[David M. Lloyd]

On 07/29/2013 08:38 PM, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 29/07/2013 15:48, Paul Benedict wrote:
>> +1 with Nick. There's no point in submitting a patch unless someone
>> who is
>> in charge of Core Libs Dev is willing to first offer technical direction.
>> Where does Oracle want to go with the solution? There are no official
>> responses -- it's been quiet on their front for sometime. I don't know if
>> that means the proposal is being ignored, or there are offline
>> discussions
>> happening, or people are enjoying summer vacations, or something else. I
>> just don't know.
>>
>
> I think several people are on vacation, some people are at the JVM
> Language summit, others are probably just busy. I'm sure there will be
> further discussion over the next few weeks.
>
> For JDK 8 then I think the use-cases need to be studied to see if it
> merits introducing new APIs or not (JDK 8 is past feature complete so it
> might be awkward/tight). The Groovy usage seems to be boil down to be
> able to distinguish frames associated with Groovy generated classes from
> other classes, Mandy has created a bug to look into that. Another one
> that has come up is loading resources on behalf of the caller, we
> already have a bug open to look at that for at least the purposes of
> logging resources.
>
> On 7u40 then the method has not been removed and there is a workaround
> to allow existing code using the sun.reflect.Reflection directly to
> continue to work. I can't say whether this should be re-visited given
> the usages that have come out of the wood work. The timing on this is
> tighter given that 7u40 is supposed to be released mid-September.

Your phrasing makes me think I missed something: is the 
Reflection.getCallerClass() method being removed due to some technical 
issue that it can only be somehow emulated as a workaround?  Or is it 
just a general cleanup effort?

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