Review Request for 8025799: Restore sun.reflect.Reflection.getCallerClass(int)

[Christian Thalinger]

Unfortunate but I understand.  It might be a good idea to add a getCallerClass(-1) call to the test case.

On Oct 7, 2013, at 1:24 AM, Mandy Chung <mandy.chung at oracle.com> 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.
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> Webrev at:
>  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mchung/jdk8/webrevs/8025799/
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> 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.
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> Thanks
> Mandy