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Alaric B. Snell wrote: > But metadata extraction code I've writ for Java looks like: > > link = getLinkFromSomewhere () // you missed this out in the HTTP one > > Class c = link.getClass (); > > boolean idempotent; > > try { > idempotent = c.getField (methodName + "IsIdempotent").getBoolean (link); > } > catch (NoSuchFieldException e) { > // There was no explicit flag, assume not idempotent for now > idempotent = false; > } If the objects implemented an interface, you could just use a cast: try { Idempotent i = (Idempotent)getLinkFromSomewhere () ... } .. and avoid all that reflection verbosity. > Reflective programming languages make this explicit! Not as explicit as a cast/classcastexception block - which is what you're doing deep down. Bill de hÓra -- Propylon www.propylon.com
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