[PATCH] 4851444: Exposing sun.reflect.Reflection#getCallerClass as a public API in Java 8

[Mandy Chung]

On 9/20/2013 5:25 PM, Remi Forax wrote:
> What you can do is to call a function that will take the stream as 
> argument and close the stream after its use and before returning.
>
> <R> R processStackStream(Function<StackStream, R> fun) {
>     StackStream stackStream = new 
> StackStream(Thread.currentThread());   // bias the stack stream on the 
> current thread
> // the current thread is checked before doing something on the stream.
>     try {
>       return fun.apply(stackStream);  // the stack stream is visible 
> by the user, but it can not use it in another thread
>     } finally {
>       stackStream.close();   // set a flag saying that you can't 
> access to the underlying stack stream anymore
>                                               // the flag doesn't need 
> to be volatile if the current thread is checked first
>     }
>  } 

Good idea.  I'll explore this.

thanks
Mandy