I was wondering if it was possible in AspectJ to do the following. I’m adding a method .inspect() to every object of class RubyObject. That method is supposed to spit a string like #(CompleteClassName, var1=val1, var2=val2, …)
So far so good, this.getClass().getFields() gets me all the visible fields I want and this.getClass().getDeclaredFields() coupled with Modifier.isPrivate(field.getModifiers())) gives me a list of all the private field..
Problem here is that I’m not able to retrieve the value of the privates fields like I do with the visible one. I guess it’s normal since the reflective API I’m using are not part of AspectJ so they are not aware I’m running a so-called privileged aspect here.
Since I’m in privileged mode, I can access all the private variables I want using this.privateVariableName but how can I do it programatically when the variable name is itself in a variable?
Thanks for your help..
public privileged aspect Reflect {
private static HashMap<Class<? extends Object>,ArrayList<RubyObject>> oStore = new HashMap<Class<? extends Object>, ArrayList<RubyObject>>();
private boolean RubyObject.hasBeenImported = false;
declare parents: ca.concordia.* implements RubyObject;
//inspect return a string of the format #<classname, var1=val, var2=val, ...>
//Unfortunately, it doesn t get PRIVATE data since privileged aspect can t gelp with field.get(Object)
public String RubyObject.inspect()
{ String result = "#<" + this.getClass().getName();
for (Field field : this.getClass().getFields())
{
try { result += ", " + field.getName() + "=" + field.get(this); }
catch(Exception e) { result += ", " + field.getName() + "=(???)"; } //should never occur;
}
for (Field field : this.getClass().getDeclaredFields())
{ if (Modifier.isPrivate(field.getModifiers()))
result += ", " + field.getName() + "=(PRIVATE)";
}
result += ">";
return result;
}