Review Request for 8025799: Restore sun.reflect.Reflection.getCallerClass(int)
Remi Forax
forax at univ-mlv.fr
Mon Oct 7 08:29:08 UTC 2013
On 10/07/2013 10:24 AM, Mandy Chung wrote:
> JDK 8 was feature complete in June and there just isn't sufficient
> time remaining to get agreement and feedback on an API to examine the
> caller frames. To that end, I propose to restore the old unsupported
> Reflection.getCallerClass(int) and that we will look to define a
> standard API for JDK 9.
>
> Webrev at:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk8/webrevs/8025799/
>
> It remains to be an unsupported API and JDK should not use this method
> and it's not annotated with @CallerSensitive. I considered detecting
> if this method is called by a system class (loaded by null loader) and
> throw an error. I decided to minimize the compatibility risk in case
> if there is any existing code added to the bootclasspath depending on
> this private API.
>
> Thanks
> Mandy
The Java side is Ok for me.
cheers,
RĂ©mi
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