So I'm playing with geotools and I thought I'd proxy one of their data-access classes and trace how it was being used in their code.
I coded up a dynamic proxy and wrapped a FeatureSource (interface) in it and off it went happily. Then I wanted to look at some of the transitive objects returned by the featureSource as well, since the main thing a FeatureSource does is return a FeatureCollection (FeatureSource is analogous to a sql DataSource and featurecollection to an sql statement).
in my invocationhandler I just passed the call through to the underlying object, printing out the target class/method/args and result as I went, but for calls that returned a FeatureCollection (another interface), I wrapped that object in my proxy (the same class but a new instance, shouldn't matter should it?) and returned it.
BAM! Classcast exception:
java.lang.ClassCastException: $Proxy5 cannot be cast to org.geotools.feature.FeatureCollection
at $Proxy4.getFeatures(Unknown Source)
at MyClass.myTestMethod(MyClass.java:295)
the calling code:
FeatureSource<SimpleFeatureType, SimpleFeature> featureSource = ... // create the FS
featureSource = (FeatureSource<SimpleFeatureType, SimpleFeature>) FeatureSourceProxy.newInstance(featureSource, features);
featureSource.getBounds();// ok
featureSource.getSupportedHints();// ok
DefaultQuery query1 = new DefaultQuery(DefaultQuery.ALL);
FeatureCollection<SimpleFeatureType, SimpleFeature> results = featureSource.getFeatures(query1); //<- explosion here
the Proxy:
public class FeatureSourceProxy implements java.lang.reflect.InvocationHandler {
private Object target;
private List<SimpleFeature> features;
public static Object newInstance(Object obj, List<SimpleFeature> features) {
return java.lang.reflect.Proxy.newProxyInstance(
obj.getClass().getClassLoader(),
obj.getClass().getInterfaces(),
new FeatureSourceProxy(obj, features)
);
}
private FeatureSourceProxy(Object obj, List<SimpleFeature> features) {
this.target = obj;
this.features = features;
}
public Object invoke(Object proxy, Method m, Object[] args)throws Throwable{
Object result = null;
try {
if("getFeatures".equals(m.getName())){
result = interceptGetFeatures(m, args);
}
else{
result = m.invoke(target, args);
}
}
catch (Exception e) {
throw new RuntimeException("unexpected invocation exception: " + e.getMessage(), e);
}
return result;
}
private Object interceptGetFeatures(Method m, Object[] args) throws Exception{
return newInstance(m.invoke(target, args), features);
}
}
Is it possible to dynamically return proxies of interfaces from a proxied interface or am I doing something wrong?
cheers!
