On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Jochen Theodorou <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> John Rose schrieb:
> > On Mar 10, 2009, at 6:17 PM, Jochen Theodorou wrote:
> >
> >> how do I get the hard link from the class to the meta
> >> class here?
> >
> > Interface injection is (will be) built on top of method handles.
> > Method handles can close over live data values
> > (MethodHandles.insertArgument).
> > So you can inject a one argument method, curried with a tailored
> > MetaClass value, to fulfill a zero-argument method injection.
> > That's an interesting facet of runtime injection, making it more
> > powerful than static injeciton.
>
> ah, ok, haven't thought of that... and can I use different MethodHandles
> for different types I inject into? and does the bootstrapping method for
> that include the type I am injecting into? Because I have to let for
> example Object return a different value than String.


Yes. The injection is done uniquely for each target class.

John: On the InterfaceInjection wiki page you wrote some things that implies
that java.lang.Object can not be an injection target. What was the
motivation behind this?

/Tobias

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