[foreign-jextract] RFR: 8253725: Jextract fails to extract big monolithic headers [v2]

[Jorn Vernee]

On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 17:39:47 GMT, Maurizio Cimadamore <mcimadamore at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> I see what you mean. Right now, one piece of messiness is that the class contents are attached to either class
>> begin/end, w/o much discipline. I'll see what I can do.
>
> I did some investigation here - and it doesn't seem like adding extra structure here is worth it. Adding build might
> risk (if we make it general) to conflict with HeaderBuilder.build which does a different task.
> As for `addStuff` while in principle that's obvious, in practice that's a bundle of static code that we want to
> generate with the class - so if we go for that we're asking all clients to do classBegin/addStuff/classEnd
> (OutputFactory would be affected badly).  So, yes, as is it looks awful, but I think we should try to fix it in a more
> radical rewriting of this code.

Ok, sounds good

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/panama-foreign/pull/357