It is not a problem of a single class by itself. It is a problem of policy and opening the gate for much more. Without a good justification to make an exception in the policy, we get bombarded with emulation requests (most you don't even see) that have zero or very little value. Inconsistency doesn't help with that. Why do we have NoSuchMethodException but not other dozens of similar classes <https://gitlab.com/ManfredTremmel/gwt-bean-validators/tree/master/gwt-bean-validators/src/main/super/de/knightsoftnet/validators/supersource/java> used in this library?
So why do we have such policy? - There is a consistent cost of transpilation, bundling, optimization etc. for having an extra classes in emulation. Currently emulation already reached to 7MBs. - Impossible code paths (e.g. catching an exception that will be never thrown from our emulation) are source of potential bugs. So we usually ask for a good justification to add such emulation. In this particular case I don't see generators that mimic reflection as such a case - it would need a lot more not only this class and it is fine in such case for them to provide the emulation. BTW, I only refer to Google code because it is usually a good reference point from statistical point of view since it includes plenty of common 3rd party GWT libs; not because it is special. If this removal becomes an upgrade burden, we can consider putting it back but I don't see couple of simple cases as a real upgrade issue. This particular library could either add it, like it is already doing other relevant classes or just change the internal API. We should wait and if there are more concerns. On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 11:36 PM Jens <jens.nehlme...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It has always had a private constructor to make that completely >> impossible. >> > > Private constructor? Looks like it always was public as it should. > > > https://github.com/gwtproject/gwt/blob/2.8.2/user/super/com/google/gwt/emul/java/lang/NoSuchMethodException.java > > > -- J. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GWT Contributors" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to google-web-toolkit-contributors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/86cb9f50-6679-4dc3-b441-c92808726bb9%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/86cb9f50-6679-4dc3-b441-c92808726bb9%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-web-toolkit-contributors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/CAN%3DyUA0baf0UCX4rDntvGJ3%3D6Lw_YA35CEJyPt3rKyRnyiFD_w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
