sun.reflect.Reflection.getCallerClass(int) is going to be removed... how to replace?

[Noctarius]

Am 10.07.2013 10:30, schrieb Cédric Champeau:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I must second Jochen here. That getCallerClass doesn't work
> anymore in an update release is unacceptable to me. As Jochen
> explained, there's no suitable replacement so far. We can live
> with getCallerClass disappearing if there's a replacement, but
> obviously, the @CallerSensitive "solution" is not one for us.
> There are additional frames in our runtime. Also we need to
> support multiple JDKs (5 to 8, but 8 is already broken).
> Especially, we don't have any replacement for @Grab which makes
> use of it internally. Furthermore, I suspect Class.forName and
> ResourceBundle.getBundle are widespread in user code and it
> used to work. This is not the kind of stuff that people expect
> to break when upgrading a JDK, and we can't tell them to
> rewrite their code (especially, finding the right classloader
> might involve more serious refactoring if it needs to be passed
> as a method argument).
> 

Maybe a solution could be an annotation to mark calls to not
appear in any stacktrace?

> I would strongly suggest to keep it as is in JDK 7 and discuss
> an alternative solution for JDK 8 that is suitable for us and
> the JVM (more flexibility with frame filtering).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Cédric
> 
> Le 09/07/2013 08:12, Charles Oliver Nutter a écrit :
>> We advise our users to pass in a classloader.
>> Class.forName's stack-based discovery of classloaders is too
>> magic anyway.
>> 
>> In general, when there's magic happening at the JVM level
>> that is not possible for us to duplicate in JRuby, we warn
>> our users away from depending on it.
>> 
>> - Charlie
>> 
>> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Jochen Theodorou
>> <blackdrag at gmx.org> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> 5 days nothing... Does that mean it is like that, there is
>>> no way around and I have to explain my users, that Java7/8
>>> is going to break some "minor" functionality?
>>> 
>>> bye blackdrag
>>> 
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