RFR: 4987375: (reflect) Class.get{Declared}Method{s} does not return clone() for array type

[Joe Darcy]

Looks fine; thanks,

-Joe

On 9/4/2013 6:55 AM, Joel Borggren-Franck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please review fix for: http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=4987375
>
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jfranck/4987375/webrev.01/
> Specdiff: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jfranck/4987375/specdiff/java/lang/Class.html
>
> There are two issues here,
>
> - First a getInterfaces() call on an array Class instance does return
>    Cloneable and Serializable. This is specified for
>    getGenericInterfaces() but not specified in getInterface(). The fix is
>    to update the spec to match the implementation, which also aligns it
>    with getGenericInterfaces().
>
> - Also even though JLS states that array types have an implementation of
>    clone() overriding the Object method, it is not included in
>    get{Declared}Method{s}. Again the fix is to note this in the spec.
>
> Me and Alex have also worked on the structure of the docs trying to
> unify them and have a better flow. Rough outline is:
>
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> cheers
> /Joel