Bug report: can't call static methods on a Java class instance

[Tal Liron]

I understand the workaround, but again I fail to see the rationale 
behind Nashorn's overly-strict interface  to Java. What's wrong with 
supporting the shorthand in Nashorn, especially when Rhino behaves as 
JavaScript programmers would expect?

On 10/09/2013 10:55 PM, Attila Szegedi wrote:
> Yup. Static methods can't be invoked on instances. This is by design. The following will work:
>
> 	Java.type("MyClass").myMethod()
>
> of course, you can reuse it as:
>
> 	var MyClass = Java.type("MyClass")
> 	...
> 	MyClass.myMethod()
>
> As a matter of fact, you can even get the method and invoke it later:
>
> 	var myMethod = Java.type("MyClass").myMethod
> 	...
> 	myMethod()
>
> This will also work:
>
> 	myInstance.class.static.myMethod()
>
> as "static" is a synthetic property on java.lang.Class objects that returns the object representing their static facet (basically, containing static members and acting as a constructor - the same object Java.type() returns).
>
> Attila.
>
> On Oct 9, 2013, at 4:13 PM, Tal Liron <tal.liron at threecrickets.com> wrote:
>
>> If we have a Java class:
>>
>> class MyClass {
>>   public static void myMethod();
>> }
>>
>> And in JavaScript try:
>>
>> myInstance.myMethod()
>>
>> Then we would get an exception that looks something like this:
>>
>> myscript.js:... TypeError: MyClass at ... has no such function "myMethod"
>>     at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ECMAErrors.error(ECMAErrors.java:56)
>>     at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ECMAErrors.typeError(ECMAErrors.java:212)
>>     at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ECMAErrors.typeError(ECMAErrors.java:184)
>>     at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ECMAErrors.typeError(ECMAErrors.java:171)
>>     at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.linker.NashornBottomLinker.linkBean(NashornBottomLinker.java:113)
>>     at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.linker.NashornBottomLinker.getGuardedInvocation(NashornBottomLinker.java:68)
>>     at jdk.internal.dynalink.support.CompositeGuardingDynamicLinker.getGuardedInvocation(CompositeGuardingDynamicLinker.java:124)
>>     at jdk.internal.dynalink.support.LinkerServicesImpl.getGuardedInvocation(LinkerServicesImpl.java:138)
>>     at jdk.internal.dynalink.DynamicLinker.relink(DynamicLinker.java:232)
>>     at jdk.nashorn.internal.scripts.Script$default.runScript(component/services/sincerity/version/default.js:6)
>>     at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ScriptFunctionData.invoke(ScriptFunctionData.java:527)
>>     at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ScriptFunction.invoke(ScriptFunction.java:204)
>>     at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ScriptRuntime.apply(ScriptRuntime.java:367)
>>