RFR 8014678: Spurious AccessControlException thrown in java.lang.Class.getEnclosingMethod()

[Peter Levart]

On 02/25/2015 03:26 PM, Peter Levart wrote:
> Ah, never mind. I missed the explicit access check that 
> getEnclosingMethod() already performs on it's own before calling 
> getDeclaredMethods(). But the check is for the same permission and 
> could be performed implicitly by getDeclaredMethods() if the caller of 
> getEnclosingMethod() was passed to it. Just an optimization 
> opportunity therefore.
>
> Peter

Or, even a better optimization:

- leave explicit check in getEnclosingMethod() as is
- call privateGetDeclaredMethods(false) instead to iterate through methods
- return a defensive copy of just the matching Method if found


Peter