MethodDelegate.java
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package net.sf.cglib.reflect;
import java.lang.reflect.*;
import java.security.ProtectionDomain;
import net.sf.cglib.core.*;
import org.objectweb.asm.ClassVisitor;
import org.objectweb.asm.Type;
// TODO: don't require exact match for return type
/**
* <b>DOCUMENTATION FROM APACHE AVALON DELEGATE CLASS</b>
*
* <p>
* Delegates are a typesafe pointer to another method. Since Java does not
* have language support for such a construct, this utility will construct
* a proxy that forwards method calls to any method with the same signature.
* This utility is inspired in part by the C# delegate mechanism. We
* implemented it in a Java-centric manner.
* </p>
*
* <h2>Delegate</h2>
* <p>
* Any interface with one method can become the interface for a delegate.
* Consider the example below:
* </p>
*
* <pre>
* public interface MainDelegate {
* int main(String[] args);
* }
* </pre>
*
* <p>
* The interface above is an example of an interface that can become a
* delegate. It has only one method, and the interface is public. In
* order to create a delegate for that method, all we have to do is
* call <code>MethodDelegate.create(this, "alternateMain", MainDelegate.class)</code>.
* The following program will show how to use it:
* </p>
*
* <pre>
* public class Main {
* public static int main( String[] args ) {
* Main newMain = new Main();
* MainDelegate start = (MainDelegate)
* MethodDelegate.create(newMain, "alternateMain", MainDelegate.class);
* return start.main( args );
* }
*
* public int alternateMain( String[] args ) {
* for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) {
* System.out.println( args[i] );
* }
* return args.length;
* }
* }
* </pre>
*
* <p>
* By themselves, delegates don't do much. Their true power lies in the fact that
* they can be treated like objects, and passed to other methods. In fact that is
* one of the key building blocks of building Intelligent Agents which in tern are
* the foundation of artificial intelligence. In the above program, we could have
* easily created the delegate to match the static <code>main</code> method by
* substituting the delegate creation call with this:
* <code>MethodDelegate.createStatic(getClass(), "main", MainDelegate.class)</code>.
* </p>
* <p>
* Another key use for Delegates is to register event listeners. It is much easier
* to have all the code for your events separated out into methods instead of individual
* classes. One of the ways Java gets around that is to create anonymous classes.
* They are particularly troublesome because many Debuggers do not know what to do
* with them. Anonymous classes tend to duplicate alot of code as well. We can
* use any interface with one declared method to forward events to any method that
* matches the signature (although the method name can be different).
* </p>
*
* <h3>Equality</h3>
* The criteria that we use to test if two delegates are equal are:
* <ul>
* <li>
* They both refer to the same instance. That is, the <code>instance</code>
* parameter passed to the newDelegate method was the same for both. The
* instances are compared with the identity equality operator, <code>==</code>.
* </li>
* <li>They refer to the same method as resolved by <code>Method.equals</code>.</li>
* </ul>
*
* @version $Id: MethodDelegate.java,v 1.25 2006/03/05 02:43:19 herbyderby Exp $
*/
abstract public class MethodDelegate {
private static final MethodDelegateKey KEY_FACTORY =
(MethodDelegateKey)KeyFactory.create(MethodDelegateKey.class, KeyFactory.CLASS_BY_NAME);
protected Object target;
protected String eqMethod;
interface MethodDelegateKey {
Object newInstance(Class delegateClass, String methodName, Class iface);
}
public static MethodDelegate createStatic(Class targetClass, String methodName, Class iface) {
Generator gen = new Generator();
gen.setTargetClass(targetClass);
gen.setMethodName(methodName);
gen.setInterface(iface);
return gen.create();
}
public static MethodDelegate create(Object target, String methodName, Class iface) {
Generator gen = new Generator();
gen.setTarget(target);
gen.setMethodName(methodName);
gen.setInterface(iface);
return gen.create();
}
public boolean equals(Object obj) {
MethodDelegate other = (MethodDelegate)obj;
return (other != null && target == other.target) && eqMethod.equals(other.eqMethod);
}
public int hashCode() {
return target.hashCode() ^ eqMethod.hashCode();
}
public Object getTarget() {
return target;
}
abstract public MethodDelegate newInstance(Object target);
public static class Generator extends AbstractClassGenerator {
private static final Source SOURCE = new Source(MethodDelegate.class.getName());
private static final Type METHOD_DELEGATE =
TypeUtils.parseType("net.sf.cglib.reflect.MethodDelegate");
private static final Signature NEW_INSTANCE =
new Signature("newInstance", METHOD_DELEGATE, new Type[]{ Constants.TYPE_OBJECT });
private Object target;
private Class targetClass;
private String methodName;
private Class iface;
public Generator() {
super(SOURCE);
}
public void setTarget(Object target) {
this.target = target;
this.targetClass = target.getClass();
}
public void setTargetClass(Class targetClass) {
this.targetClass = targetClass;
}
public void setMethodName(String methodName) {
this.methodName = methodName;
}
public void setInterface(Class iface) {
this.iface = iface;
}
protected ClassLoader getDefaultClassLoader() {
return targetClass.getClassLoader();
}
protected ProtectionDomain getProtectionDomain() {
return ReflectUtils.getProtectionDomain(targetClass);
}
public MethodDelegate create() {
setNamePrefix(targetClass.getName());
Object key = KEY_FACTORY.newInstance(targetClass, methodName, iface);
return (MethodDelegate)super.create(key);
}
protected Object firstInstance(Class type) {
return ((MethodDelegate)ReflectUtils.newInstance(type)).newInstance(target);
}
protected Object nextInstance(Object instance) {
return ((MethodDelegate)instance).newInstance(target);
}
public void generateClass(ClassVisitor v) throws NoSuchMethodException {
Method proxy = ReflectUtils.findInterfaceMethod(iface);
final Method method = targetClass.getMethod(methodName, proxy.getParameterTypes());
if (!proxy.getReturnType().isAssignableFrom(method.getReturnType())) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("incompatible return types");
}
MethodInfo methodInfo = ReflectUtils.getMethodInfo(method);
boolean isStatic = TypeUtils.isStatic(methodInfo.getModifiers());
if ((target == null) ^ isStatic) {
throw new IllegalArgumentException("Static method " + (isStatic ? "not " : "") + "expected");
}
ClassEmitter ce = new ClassEmitter(v);
CodeEmitter e;
ce.begin_class(Constants.V1_8,
Constants.ACC_PUBLIC,
getClassName(),
METHOD_DELEGATE,
new Type[]{ Type.getType(iface) },
Constants.SOURCE_FILE);
ce.declare_field(Constants.PRIVATE_FINAL_STATIC, "eqMethod", Constants.TYPE_STRING, null);
EmitUtils.null_constructor(ce);
// generate proxied method
MethodInfo proxied = ReflectUtils.getMethodInfo(iface.getDeclaredMethods()[0]);
int modifiers = Constants.ACC_PUBLIC;
if ((proxied.getModifiers() & Constants.ACC_VARARGS) == Constants.ACC_VARARGS) {
modifiers |= Constants.ACC_VARARGS;
}
e = EmitUtils.begin_method(ce, proxied, modifiers);
e.load_this();
e.super_getfield("target", Constants.TYPE_OBJECT);
e.checkcast(methodInfo.getClassInfo().getType());
e.load_args();
e.invoke(methodInfo);
e.return_value();
e.end_method();
// newInstance
e = ce.begin_method(Constants.ACC_PUBLIC, NEW_INSTANCE, null);
e.new_instance_this();
e.dup();
e.dup2();
e.invoke_constructor_this();
e.getfield("eqMethod");
e.super_putfield("eqMethod", Constants.TYPE_STRING);
e.load_arg(0);
e.super_putfield("target", Constants.TYPE_OBJECT);
e.return_value();
e.end_method();
// static initializer
e = ce.begin_static();
e.push(methodInfo.getSignature().toString());
e.putfield("eqMethod");
e.return_value();
e.end_method();
ce.end_class();
}
}
}