Yeah, I think I found the thread already... by Timo Walther?
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Stephan Ewen <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Would have been great. I had high hopes when I saw the trick with the
> "constant pool", but this is only to make what Flink does already applicable
> to non-serializable lambdas.
>
> If you want to help us with this, I'll ping you for some support on the
> OpenJDK mailing list ;-)
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 1:59 PM, Kristoffer Sjögren <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>>
>> I suspected that you already had looked into this, but it was worth a
>> try. It would make everything so much easier.
>>
>> Thanks for the explanation :-)
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Stephan Ewen <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> > Hi Kristoffer!
>> >
>> > I looked through the code as well. In fact, Flink currently uses the
>> > trick
>> > mentioned for Serializable Lambdas in the gist you sent me.
>> >
>> > This works well for lambdas that return simple types (primitives or
>> > classes
>> > without generics). The information for the generic parametrization is
>> > unfortunately really erased, it is in no signature or anything.
>> >
>> > Java has the concept of "generic method signatures", which means that a
>> > method gets a signature string that includes the generic types. These
>> > signatures are generated for regular functions, but OpenJDK and
>> > OracleJDK do
>> > not generate them for synthetic methods (like lambdas).
>> >
>> > We tried to submit a patch to OpenJDK to add these generic signatures to
>> > lambda methods, but they did not like the fact that we try to figure out
>> > the
>> > generic types of lambdas. I hope they change their minds at some
>> > point...
>> >
>> > Stephan
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Aljoscha Krettek <[hidden email]>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Unfortunately, this also doesn't work for the same reasons. The generic
>> >> types of generic parameters of a lambda are not stored anywhere.
>> >> Stephan
>> >> mentioned to me that the only possibility right now would be to look at
>> >> the
>> >> code using something like ASM to find a cast in the code to the
>> >> concrete
>> >> type of the generic parameter.
>> >>
>> >> On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 at 11:35 Kristoffer Sjögren <[hidden email]>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> How about https://github.com/jhalterman/typetools?
>> >>>
>> >>> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Aljoscha Krettek
>> >>> <[hidden email]>
>> >>> wrote:
>> >>> > Hi Kristoffer,
>> >>> > I'm afraid not, but maybe Timo has some further information. In this
>> >>> > extended example we can see the problem:
>> >>> > https://gist.github.com/aljoscha/84cc363d13cf1dfe9364. The output
>> >>> > is:
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Type is: class
>> >>> > org.apache.flink.examples.java8.wordcount.TypeTest$Thing
>> >>> > class org.apache.flink.examples.java8.wordcount.TypeTest$Thing
>> >>> > Type is: class
>> >>> > org.apache.flink.examples.java8.wordcount.TypeTest$Thing
>> >>> > class org.apache.flink.examples.java8.wordcount.TypeTest$Thing
>> >>> > Type is :
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>> > org.apache.flink.examples.java8.wordcount.TypeTest.org.apache.flink.examples.java8.wordcount.TypeTest$Thing<java.lang.String>
>> >>> > class org.apache.flink.examples.java8.wordcount.TypeTest$Thing
>> >>> >
>> >>> > So with the two lambda calls it does not correctly determine the
>> >>> > generic
>> >>> > parameter of Thing while it works with the anonymous class.
>> >>> >
>> >>> > I was exited when I saw the example because we've been trying for so
>> >>> > long to
>> >>> > get this to work. Maybe we have to wait for java 19 to get this to
>> >>> > work. ;-)
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Thanks a lot for helping, though. :D
>> >>> > Aljoscha
>> >>> >
>> >>> > On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 at 11:01 Kristoffer Sjögren <[hidden email]>
>> >>> > wrote:
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Hi
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Potential fix for writing flink jobs using lamdas without Eclipse
>> >>> >> JDT?
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> https://gist.github.com/aslakhellesoy/3678beba60c109eacbe5
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> Cheers,
>> >>> >> -Kristoffer
>> >
>> >
>
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