Definitely exciting to hear that it works. Is this something you could propose as a patch on the Clojure JIRA?
On Friday, December 27, 2013 9:52:04 PM UTC-5, Colin Fleming wrote: > > Wow, that works! You just saved me an extraordinary amount of pain - thank > you! > > I had to make one further small change, to invoke the method on RT instead > of Class, but that was it. > > > On 28 December 2013 14:16, Aaron Cohen <aa...@assonance.org > <javascript:>>wrote: > >> I have the sneaking suspicion that this may be as simple as changing >> >> >> https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/clojure/lang/Compiler.java#L697 >> >> to: >> >> final static Method forNameMethod = Method.getMethod("Class >> *classForNameNonLoading*(String)"); >> >> >> and making "classForNameNonLoading" public at >> https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/clojure/lang/RT.java#L2074 >> >> static *public *Class classForNameNonLoading(String name) >> >> >> I should try it myself, but may not get to it this weekend. >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Zach Oakes <zso...@gmail.com<javascript:> >> > wrote: >> >>> Yeah I tried this with RoboVM, but there are so many classes that needed >>> to be stubbed that it turned into an endless rabbit hole, so I gave up. It >>> may be a good solution for those who just have one or two problematic >>> classes, though. >>> >>> >>> On Thursday, December 26, 2013 8:37:44 PM UTC-5, Colin Fleming wrote: >>> >>>> In case anyone is interested in a workaround for this, I managed to >>>> "fix" my compilation by stubbing out the problematic classes and putting >>>> the stubs ahead of the real classes in the classpath when I compile. Where >>>> those stubs return other objects that are required during static >>>> initialisation, I create those classes with Mockito. I feel dirty all over >>>> but it does work. >>>> >>>> I'm also tinkering with a fork of Clojure in the background that uses >>>> ASM Types instead of Class objects. It's still a long way from done but >>>> it's looking like that might provide a solution for compilation, at least. >>>> I'll report back if I ever get it working. >>>> >>>> >>>> On 15 December 2013 14:05, Colin Fleming <colin.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I've just spent some time today looking at the compiler code, and >>>>> unfortunately I think the answer is "no". When a symbol is imported, >>>>> Clojure currently instantiates the Class object using Class.forName() and >>>>> stores that in the namespace's mapping. At the point the Class is >>>>> instantiated, static initializers are run. So the only way to avoid that >>>>> is >>>>> not instantiate the Class and store something else in the mapping. >>>>> >>>>> Alex's suggestion above to store the string representing the class >>>>> name and load the class on demand might work for REPL style development >>>>> but >>>>> won't work for AOT compilation since reflection is used to find fields, >>>>> methods etc on the class during compilation. The only solution that I can >>>>> see that would work for AOT would be to store some sort of class wrapper >>>>> object which reads the class bytecode to get that information without >>>>> instantiating the class. >>>>> >>>>> However both of these suggestions break a fairly fundamental >>>>> assumption - that importing a class creates a mapping from its name to a >>>>> Class object. I have no idea what sort of code might be out there making >>>>> that assumption, but it's probably fair to assume there could be a lot of >>>>> it. At some point I might look into creating a fork of Clojure I just use >>>>> to AOT compile. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 12 December 2013 03:41, Robin Heggelund Hansen >>>>> <skinn...@gmail.com>wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Is this something that is fixable? >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> -- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "Clojure" group. >>>>>> To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com >>>>>> >>>>>> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient >>>>>> with your first post. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>>> clojure+u...@googlegroups.com >>>>>> >>>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >>>>>> --- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups "Clojure" group. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>> send an email to clojure+u...@googlegroups.com. >>>>>> >>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Clojure" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >>> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >>> your first post. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Clojure" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>> >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. 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