Re: [webbeans-dev] Questions & clarifications
Just that invoking inner class constructors via reflection is a bit
like black magic - is this definitely something we want to do...
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Pete Muir
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On 29 Oct 2008, at 15:58, "Gavin King" <gavin(a)hibernate.org> wrote:
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Pete Muir <pmuir(a)redhat.com>
wrote:
>> 3.2.5.1 Declaring a Web Beans constructor
>
>
>> If a simple Web Bean defined using annotations does not explicitly
>> declare
>> a constructor using @Initializer, the constructor that accepts no
>> parameters
>> is the Web Bean constructor.
>
>
> It is possible to call constructors by reflection on inner classes,
> but it
> requires you to rely on the (AFAIK unspecified) behaviour that the
> inner
> class instance holds a reference to it's parent instance in the
> "this$<x>"
> field, where
>
> x = (level-of-nesting - 1)
>
> WDYT?
I don't understand what you're suggesting here, Pete.
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