RE: Faking Clojures

A quick thought might be to use ASM on the client machine to generate the bytecode.

Then send the resulting bytearray to the remote machine where it is loaded with
a classloader and executed.  You would need to pass the arguments.

> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:45:41 -0500
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [asm] Faking Clojures
> 
> Hey,
> 
> I have an interesting problem here and I'm wondering if ASM can help
> me. I want to write a method that takes two arguments. A clojure alike
> function and a list of arguments. The function receives the arguments
> at some future point in time when it's executed.
> 
> The tricky part is, the execution happens on some remote machine. That
> means I want to extract the function's bytecode, send it along with
> the arguments to some remote machine, turn it back into a class and
> execute it.
> 
> I've done something similar with Runnables in the past (with plain
> Java) but it was overall to fragile to be practical.
> 
> Thanks,
>  Roger
> 
> 
> public interface Function {
>     public void invoke(Object[] args);
> }
> 
> Object[] args = new Object[] { "Hello", "World!" };
> doSomething(new Function() {
>     public void invoke(Object[] arguments) {
>         System.out.println(Arrays.asList(args));
>     }
> }, args);

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