Thanks for the review Joe, I added a space and pushed.

cheers
/Joel

> On 22 aug 2015, at 01:12, Joseph D. Darcy <joe.da...@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> Belatedly, the
> 
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jfranck/8073056/webrev.02/
> 
> webrev looks fine other than a missing space in a line of 
> AnnotationSuport.java:
> 
>    208                 }catch (Throwable t) { // from 
> InvocationHandler::invoke
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Joe
> 
> On 3/28/2015 3:24 AM, Joel Borggrén-Franck wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>>> On 27 Feb 2015, at 11:06, Peter Levart <peter.lev...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 02/27/2015 10:27 AM, Joel Borggrén-Franck wrote:
>>>>> On 26 feb 2015, at 22:35, Peter Levart <peter.lev...@gmail.com>
>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>> On 02/26/2015 10:27 PM, Peter Levart wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> The m.setAccessible(true) for the methods is needed to access methods of 
>>>>>> non-public annotations, right? This call could be moved to 
>>>>>> AnnotationType constructor as there it will be performed only once per 
>>>>>> Method object.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> ...which will have the added benefit in that it will guarantee that only 
>>>>> one MethodAccessor object per Method will ever be constructed instead of 
>>>>> two…
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> I don’t see this. setAccessible sets override in AccessibleObject, I don’t 
>>>> see a new MethodAccessor being generated here.
>>> My fault! I was mistakenly thinking of Field objects in the context of 
>>> setAccessible(boolean). If you use a Field object in two modes it will 
>>> create and retain two different FieldAccessors (because they are different 
>>> implementations in case field is final).
>>> 
>>>> But I agree with you, and setting it as accessible in the AnnotationType 
>>>> constructor should arguably be more secure since then we know it isn’t 
>>>> shared since we just got our copy fresh from getDeclaredMethods().
>>> That's a good point from maintainability perspective, yes, if someone some 
>>> time decides to "optimize" the AnnotationType. I think it would be nice if 
>>> AnnotationType documents that members() method returns Method objects that 
>>> are pre-conditioned with setAccessible(true) and that users should not 
>>> change this flag.
>>> 
>> I don’t want to do this in AnnotationType without a bigger overhaul that may 
>> be slightly incompatible and therefor should be 9 only. I do want to 
>> backport this fix to 8 however, so here is an alternative solution that 
>> should be safe and correct at the cost of extra allocation in the path for 
>> custom implementations of annotations (that should be rare).
>> 
>> New webrev:
>> 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jfranck/8073056/webrev.02/
>> 
>> cheers
>> /Joel
> 

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