RFR (4th): 8023524: Mechanism to dump generated lambda classes / log lambda code generation

[Peter Levart]

On 10/02/2013 05:17 PM, Henry Jen wrote:
>>> >>One thing to watch though is that Paths.get(String) can throw InvalidPathException. This will render InnerClassLambdaMetafactory non-functional since its static initialization will throw exception. Each lambda capture will than throw Error. I think the exception should be caught, logged and null returned from ProxyClassesDumper.create() in that case...
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>> >yes, nice catch.
> I had it in there earlier, but need that in exception message. Since it is called only by InnerClassMetaFactory, which I think won't cause that exception so I just let it be.

It's called by InnerClassMetaFactory, yes, but the path string comes 
from system property (the user!).

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> That's not a good idea if consider dumper to be a reusable component.

I agree, but you should handle the exception in static initializer of 
InnerClassMetaFactory then.

Regards, Peter

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> Cheers,
> Henry