Proposed API for JEP 259: Stack-Walking API
Mandy Chung
mandy.chung at oracle.com
Wed Nov 4 02:59:02 UTC 2015
> On Nov 3, 2015, at 2:08 PM, David M. Lloyd <david.lloyd at redhat.com> wrote:
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>> I considered Optional<Class<?>>. I believe it is rare to have a JNI attached thread calling StackWalker::getCallerClass from native. Most common cases will find a caller class. Returning an Optional will force most common uses to handle the case if it’s absent. It’s a tradeoff that I think it’s better to return Thread.class for the JNI attached thread calling getCallerClass in native which would rarely happen.
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> I'll say it: I don't think the world will fall apart if it just returns null when there's no caller. Some might even consider that to be intuitive.
I think there is no real issue to return Thread.class either, right?
Mandy
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