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

[Mandy Chung]

On 10/7/2013 9:45 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> Hi Mandy,
>
> Note that unless you push both hotspot and jdk changes through the 
> same forest you will need separate bugs for each part. You will also 
> need a HSX committer to do the hotspot push.
>

I do plan to push them separately meaning that the jdk change will wait 
until the hotspot change is integrated.  I think the hotspot integration 
is weekly.

I am not a HSX committer :(  Since I have your attention, can you 
sponsor my hotspot change?

Mandy

> David
>
> On 7/10/2013 6:24 PM, 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