OpenJDK #Override missing issue - overriding

Is there any case that in OpenJDK 1.7.0_45, the Derived class override the base class' method, but without #Override annotation, and in runtime, the instance of derived class will invoke the base class' method?
class Base {
public f() {
}
}
class Derived {
public f() {
}
}
the Derived class's method does not call the base class's method.
BTW, the same code run well on Oracle JDK1.7.

No, as you can see in the Javadocs, #Override has SOURCE retention and only works as a compile time safeguard. The bytecode will not be any different. See also How to identify override method in Java byte code?

I am not sure if I understand the question correctly, but the override-annotation does not control which method is invoked at runtime.
So sure you can invoke the baseclass-method. Just invoke super.f().

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How to reduce slow start for picocli apps due to reflection

Picocli has to introspect the command tree. Doing so it needs to load the domain object classes for every Command which slows down the jvm startup.
What options are there to avoid this startup lag? One solution I've come up with is described in https://github.com/remkop/picocli/issues/482:
I am using reflection to postpone any class loading until after the command is selected. This way only the command classes themselves are loaded and finally the classes which implement the single command requested by the user:
abstract class BaseCommand implements Runnable {
interface CommandExecutor {
Object doExecute() throws Exception;
}
// find the CommandExecutor declared at the BaseCommand subclass.
protected Object executeReflectively() throws Exception {
Class<?> innerClass = getExecutorInnerClass();
Constructor<?> ctor = innerClass.getDeclaredConstructor(getClass());
CommandExecutor exec = (CommandExecutor) ctor.newInstance(this);
return exec.doExecute();
}
private Class<?> getExecutorInnerClass() throws ClassNotFoundException {
return getClass().getClassLoader().loadClass(getClass().getName() + "$Executor");
}
public void run() {
try {
executeReflectively();
} catch(...){
/// usual stuff
}
}
}
A concrete commend class:
#Command(...)
final class CopyProfile extends BaseCommand {
#Option String source;
#Option String dest;
// class must NOT be static and must be called "Executor"
public class Executor implements CommandExecutor {
#Override
public Object doExecute() throws Exception {
// you can basically wrap your original run() with this boilerplate
// all the CopyProfile's field are in scope!
FileUtils.copy(source, dest);
}
}
}
It seems like https://github.com/remkop/picocli/issues/500 may provide the ultimate solution to this. What are the other options until then?
UPDATE February 2020:
Upgrading to a recent version of picocli should fix this issue.
From the picocli 4.2.0 release notes:
From this release, subcommands are not instantiated until they are matched on the command line. This should improve the startup time for applications with subcommands that do a lot of initialization when they are instantiated.
An alternative that doesn’t require any code changes is to use GraalVM to compile your picocli-based application to a native image.
This article shows how to do this and the resulting startup time is 3 milliseconds.

JavaFX call default method in SceneBuilder (FXML)

How can I call a interface default method in the FXML - scenebuilder.
I have an Interface like:
public interface Startable
{
default void handleStart(){...}
}
and a controller like:
BlaController implements Startable {...}
but if I call the method "handleStart()" in the fxml, I get the following exception:
javafx.fxml.LoadException: Error resolving onMouseClicked='#handleStart', either the event handler is not in the Namespace or there is an error in the script.
Is there a possibility to call the method?
It is not possible to implement an interface default method and use it in FXML, apparently FXMLLoader uses reflection and doesn't find the method in the class implementation. You must override the method in the Controller class and then call the default method.
The interface remains the same.
public interface Startable {
default void handleStart(){...}
}
This is how you can call the super implementation
public class BlaController implements Startable {
#Override
#FXML
void handleStart(){
Startable.super.handleStart();
}
}
Hope it helps...
I have created a feature request. Maybe there will be a straight forward solution to this question in the future: https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=JDK-8259916

Java 8 : Invoke Interface's static method using reflection

I want to invoke static method of Java 8 interface using reflection API.
public interface TimeClient {
static void testStatic() {
System.out.println("In the Static");
}
}
I am able to invoke default method of Interface but unable to invoke static method.
I see no problems:
TimeClient.class.getDeclaredMethod("testStatic").invoke(null);
Works without problems and prints "In the Static". The getMethod also works as expected:
TimeClient.class.getMethod("testStatic").invoke(null);

Using Spring AOP 3.1.0 to set service instance using method argument

Hi i am new to Annotation and Spring AOP. below is what i am trying to achieve
public interface Service {
public void process(String ServiceName, Bean bean);
}
public class ServiceImpl1 implements Service{
public void process(String ServiceName, Bean bean) {
/// do something here
}
}
public class ServiceImpl2 implements Service{
public void process(String ServiceName, Bean bean) {
/// do something here
}
}
from other class i would be calling something like
...
public void doSomething(String serviceName, Bean bean){
service.process("ServiceImpl1", bean);
}
...
I can achieve the same by using AroundAdvice and Before advice and intercepting my doSomething method and then instantiate the service object after reading the serviceName.
I there is a better approach for this?
I just need a direction and then i will figure this out.
Thanks
Well, I am guessing what you want to do is have a Before advice that takes the passed in service name, creates an object of appropriate class, then calls the appropriate method on that newly created object. It seems like, to me, you are really looking for more of a Factory pattern, but trying to use AOP to accomplish it.
If you took the Factory pattern, you would create a class called ServiceFactory, which takes some parameters and returns the correct Service implementation for those parameters. You calling code would simply use the Factory to get the right Service at runtime.
Another approach, if you want to stick with more of a DI pattern, might be to create a wrapper class that serves as the "conductor". This might have a Map of service names to Service implementation. You could then inject this wrapper into your code, and even inject the Map into the wrapper. Your calling code would call methods on the wrapper, which would locate the correct, singleton implementation and aggrigate the call to it.
I just feel that using AOP for this is asking for trouble.
You can inject the service impl class using the spring #Autowire annotation. Since u have 2 implementation classes, you can use qualifier to specify which impl needs to b injected.

To mock an object, does it have to be either implementing an interface or marked virtual?

or can the class be implementing an abstract class also?
To mock a type, it must either be an interface (this is also called being pure virtual) or have virtual members (abstract members are also virtual).
By this definition, you can mock everything which is virtual.
Essentially, dynamic mocks don't do anything you couldn't do by hand.
Let's say you are programming against an interface such as this one:
public interface IMyInterface
{
string Foo(string s);
}
You could manually create a test-specific implementation of IMyInterface that ignores the input parameter and always returns the same output:
public class MyClass : IMyInterface
{
public string Foo(string s)
{
return "Bar";
}
}
However, that becomes repetitive really fast if you want to test how the consumer responds to different return values, so instead of coding up your Test Doubles by hand, you can have a framework dynamically create them for you.
Imagine that dynamic mocks really write code similar to the MyClass implementation above (they don't actually write the code, they dynamically emit the types, but it's an accurate enough analogy).
Here's how you could define the same behavior as MyClass with Moq:
var mock = new Mock<IMyInterface>();
mock.Setup(x => x.Foo(It.IsAny<string>())).Returns("Bar");
In both cases, the construcor of the created class will be called when the object is created. As an interface has no constructor, this will normally be the default constructor (of MyClass and the dynamically emitted class, respectively).
You can do the same with concrete types such as this one:
public class MyBase
{
public virtual string Ploeh()
{
return "Fnaah";
}
}
By hand, you would be able to derive from MyBase and override the Ploeh method because it's virtual:
public class TestSpecificChild : MyBase
{
public override string Ploeh()
{
return "Ndøh";
}
}
A dynamic mock library can do the same, and the same is true for abstract methods.
However, you can't write code that overrides a non-virtual or internal member, and neither can dynamic mocks. They can only do what you can do by hand.
Caveat: The above description is true for most dynamic mocks with the exception of TypeMock, which is different and... scary.
From Stephen Walther's blog:
You can use Moq to create mocks from both interfaces and existing classes. There are some requirements on the classes. The class can’t be sealed. Furthermore, the method being mocked must be marked as virtual. You cannot mock static methods (use the adaptor pattern to mock a static method).

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