Re: New Reflection/Beans API

It is no problem to invoke static method :

publi class MyClass{
  public static void foo(){

}

}

public class GeneratedReflectForMyClass{

public Object invoke(Object instance/*can be null for static method*/, int
index, Object args[] ){
        ..............
       case FOO_INDEX :
      MyClass.foo();
      return null;
      ..................

}
}




> [email protected] wrote:
>
> > I don't see what you are talking about.  You know what class you are
> > calling the static method on, it's just a matter of casting the return
> > value of the method.  Where does the dispatcher come in?
>
> Ok,
>
>
> you have added a static method foo() to the "to be reflected class" A,
> what you would write in plain source code then is
>
> A.foo()
>
> And that's the crucial point, because we're not on source code level
> here, i.e., there's no place where this code is present. The method
> exists, but you can not call it (without using "normal" reflection).
> With instance methods it works, because have have an instance, i.e.,
> an object which can cast to something appropriate. as shown in the
> example.
> With static methods you don't have an instance, thus no cast possible.
> You need to generate an additional object on the fly that calls that
> method, and that's what I'm talking about.
>
> Cheers
> Markus
>
>
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