[jira] [Resolved] (SLING-945) Introduce a ClassReader for scripts which need to do symbol resolution at compile time

["Carsten Ziegeler (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-945?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Carsten Ziegeler resolved SLING-945.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

> Introduce a ClassReader for scripts which need to do symbol resolution at compile time
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>                 Key: SLING-945
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-945
>             Project: Sling
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Scripting
>            Reporter: Michael Dürig
>            Priority: Major
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> As mentioned in [1] scripts (which compile to byte code) should not use the class loader for loading class files to resolve external symbols. Class loaders are designed to load binary representations of classes into the JVM at runtime. Using them for scripting languages which need to resolve symbols at compile time is a hack. In fact all languages which I looked at and which do symbol resolution at compile time use the same 'classloader.getResource("foo.class")' hack to get access to a class file. Languages which require to browse the classes available to them at compile time need to resort to even more esoteric hacks. 
> I faced this issue when I implemented support for Scala. To work around it I implemented a (Scala specific) file system abstraction on top of Felix's bundles. While this works ATM, the approach might not be too stable since it partially relies on implementation details of the underlying classloaders. Since other scripting languages have the same problem (i.e. JSP AFAIK) I suggest to factor the hacks into a separate ClassReader service. Scripts can then use this at compile time to resolve external symbols. 
> [1] http://sling.markmail.org/message/ly3yhlmqufpugjly



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