invoking a interface default method from within an InvocationHandler

[Jochen Theodorou]

too bad no-one knows. Has anyone an idea for a better place to ask this? 
(btw, because of the getSimpleName issue I can't use MethodHandleProxies)

Am 06.10.2014 18:06, schrieb Jochen Theodorou:
> Hi,
>
> I find this a little odd and I wonder how you are supposed to do it
> right. Or if that is a bug.
>
> So I have a class implementing InvocationHandler and I used Proxy to
> create a an proxied instance of Consumer. This is a functional interface
> and I want to use its accept method for my purposes, while still keeping
> the old andThen method as it is.
>
> going by the usual signature for the InvocationHandler implementation
> main method (public Object invoke(Object proxy, Method method, Object[]
> args) throws Throwable)
>
> I can do neither method.invoke on this, since that leads to that method
> (overflow then) again, nor can I take the proxy object, since it
> obviously has nothing to do with functional interface.
>
> Now... is that really on purpose? Are you indeed forced to split up your
> code into a java7+ and pre java7 case to be able to use
> MethodHandleProxies#asInterfaceInstance where it is available instead?
> Shouldn't Proxy and InvocationHandler then be marked deprecated in
> Java8? And how do you use MethodHandleProxies to implement multiple
> interfaces?
>
> bye Jochen
>


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