On Oct 25, 2017, at 8:39 AM, Brian Goetz <brian.go...@oracle.com> wrote: > > John Rose proposed: >> a) Class.getnestHost() - defaults to itself if there is a resolution error > > (or if there is no Nest attribute)
(yes) >> b) Class.getNestMembers() - returns full nest, fallback of self if any >> resolution errors including it lists a nestHost that >> does not list it. > > For consistency with the classfile representation, this should probably omit > the host class. (yes, that's my preference, although the other way is not too terrible) > >> [editor notes: >> - full statically defined nest from classfile attribute? As distinct from >> full dynamically >> currently loaded nest - right? > > I would prefer that this return only the static members, which is consistent > with the design center for reflection -- reflection over classfiles. yes yes yes; the reflection should reflect what's in the class-file (or a resolvable subset), not everything in the VM's knowledge I like Remi's idea of scrubbing the list (of reflected nestmates) of bad actors rather than clearing the list if there are *any* bad actors. Reminder: bad actors are an edge case, not a normal case. Question: what do we do in the exactly parallel case for getInnerClasses? Do we scrub bad actors? Nullify the result? Throw? (Probably throw.) — John
