Package classUtils.javassist.reflect

Runtime Reflection.

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Description

Interface Summary

Metalevel

An interface to access a metaobject and a class metaobject.

Class Summary

ClassMetaobject	A runtime class metaobject.
Compiler	A bytecode translator for reflection.
Loader	A class loader for reflection.
Metaobject	A runtime metaobject.
Reflection	The class implementing the reflection mechanism.
Sample	A template used for defining a reflective class.

Exception Summary

CannotCreateException	Signals that ClassMetaobject.newInstance() fails.
CannotInvokeException	Thrown when method invocation using the reflection API has thrown an exception.

Package classUtils.javassist.reflect Description

Runtime Reflection.

This package enables a metaobject to trap method calls and field accesses on a regular Java object. It provides a class Reflection, which is a main module for implementing runtime reflection. It also provides a class Loader and Compiler as utilities for dynamically or statically translating a regular class into a reflective class.

An instance of the reflective class is associated with a runtime metaobject and a runtime class metaobject, which control the behavior of that instance. The runtime metaobject is created for every (base-level) instance but the runtime class metaobject is created for every (base-level) class. Metaobject is the root class of the runtime metaobject and ClassMetaobject is the root class of the runtime class metaobject.

This package is provided as a sample implementation of the reflection mechanism with Javassist. All the programs in this package uses only the regular Javassist API; they never call any hidden methods.

The most significant class in this package is Reflection. See the description of this class first.