Alternative mechanism for reflective access control (#ReflectiveAccessToNonExportedTypes / #AwkwardStrongEncapsulation)
Andrew Dinn
adinn at redhat.com
Thu Sep 29 08:54:51 UTC 2016
On 28/09/16 19:09, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 28/09/2016 13:22, Andrew Dinn wrote:
>> I'd be happy to try to conduct such an experiment. Can you provide links
>> to the relevant JIRAs.
> The javadoc for MethodsHandes.Lookup is probably the best place to
> start, assuming you haven't used it before. This has a good section to
> explain how access checking differs to core reflection.
>
> JDK-8162494 [1] is one issue where John has a write-up with some straw
> man designs. I suspect it will require working through a few specific
> examples to get a feel for what is the right direction.
Thanks, I'll look into this as soon as I can. In particular I will see
if I can use it in Byteman instead of reflection (the need to do some
class rewriting means an agent is probably the best initial candidate
for testing this).
regards,
Andrew Dinn
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