invokedynamics call information

[Sarika Sinha]

Hi,
I wanted to know, if there is a way to know that a method will be invoked using invokeDynamics . This is to aid the the debugging for Java8 , where Lambda expressions are generated as invokedynamics call. Any info to know if a class was generated by LambdaMetaFactory to generate the synthetic class using MethodHandle ?

Thanks,
Sarika

[Remi Forax]

On 01/23/2014 07:18 AM, Sarika Sinha wrote:
> Hi,
> I wanted to know, if there is a way to know that a method will be
> invoked using invokeDynamics .

No, apart if you crawle the whole bytecodes but you can not access to
the whole bytecodes.

> This is to aid the the debugging for Java8 , where Lambda expressions
> are generated as invokedynamics call. Any info to know if a class was
> generated by LambdaMetaFactory to generate the synthetic class using
> MethodHandle ?

You can only do that for serializable lambdas, because only serializable
lambdas keep the link between the lambda and the method corresponding to
the body of the lambda.
Otherwise, it's not specified and relying on hacks is not a good idea
because the way it works now will likely to change in an update of jdk8.

But maybe you can describe what you want to do exactly .

>
> Thanks,
> Sarika

cheers,
Rémi

[Sarika Sinha]

Hi,
So basically I am looking for the information which can tell me that the synthetic class generated is for lambda Expression. I want to ignore few exceptions in such scenario which might be valid for a normal Synthetic class like line nos etc.
I am aware of only one hint which is the name of the class which has "$$Lambda$" .
Thanks,
Sarika

[Remi Forax]

On 01/23/2014 09:17 AM, Sarika Sinha wrote:
> Hi,
> So basically I am looking for the information which can tell me that
> the synthetic class generated is for lambda Expression. I want to
> ignore few exceptions in such scenario which might be valid for a
> normal Synthetic class like line nos etc.
> I am aware of only one hint which is the name of the class which has
> "$$Lambda$" .
> Thanks,
> Sarika

One reason to use invokedynamic when compiling the creation of a lambda
is that it allows to change the way the lambda proxy object is created
for each update of the jdk.
So any hints you will find may be true only for a specific version for a
specific vendor.

cheers,
Rémi

>
> On Thursday, 23 January 2014 11:48:09 UTC+5:30, Sarika Sinha wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I wanted to know, if there is a way to know that a method will be
> invoked using invokeDynamics . This is to aid the the debugging
> for Java8 , where Lambda expressions are generated as
> invokedynamics call. Any info to know if a class was generated by
> LambdaMetaFactory to generate the synthetic class using MethodHandle ?
>
> Thanks,
> Sarika
>

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