Avoiding sun.misc.Unsafe and embracing modules in Java libraries: missing links

[Alan Bateman]

On 10/04/2018 12:15, Rafael Winterhalter wrote:
> Thanks for the reference.
>
> As for the proxy API, I think that this should be reworked anyways as 
> the lookup on each call would be rather expensive.
In the mean-time, I think you should be able to make progress with 
findSpecial for the common case where the interface is public and in an 
exported package.

For this case, the proxy will be generated into an unnamed module (the 
"Package and Module Membership of Proxy Class" section of the Proxy API 
spec has all the wonderful details on this). The proxy dispatches to 
your invocation handler, module "main" in your test. The invocation 
handler can invoke Module::addReads to update module "main" to read the 
proxy's module. It can then create a full power Lookup on the proxy 
class and invoke findSpecial with the proxy class ("iface" should work 
too) as the specialCaller. Bind that to the proxy instance and perform 
the invoke as you are doing already.

-Alan.