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  1. JDK
  2. JDK-8134939

Improve toString method of Dynalink DynamicMethod objects

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        jjs> java.lang.System.out.println
        [jdk.internal.dynalink.beans.OverloadedDynamicMethod java.io.PrintStream.println]

        Instead of the above, it toString returned all overloads, we could have output that looks like:

        jjs> java.lang.System.out.println
        [jdk.internal.dynalink.beans.OverloadedDynamicMethod
        void java.io.PrintStream.println(long)
        void java.io.PrintStream.println(Object)
        void java.io.PrintStream.println(char[])
        void java.io.PrintStream.println()
        void java.io.PrintStream.println(float)
        void java.io.PrintStream.println(boolean)
        void java.io.PrintStream.println(char)
        void java.io.PrintStream.println(int)
        void java.io.PrintStream.println(double)
        void java.io.PrintStream.println(String)
        ]

        also, constructors look unwieldy, e.g.

        [jdk.internal.dynalink.beans.SimpleDynamicMethod File java.io.File.java.io.File(String,String)]

        It'd be much better if they looked like a Java constructor:

        [jdk.internal.dynalink.beans.SimpleDynamicMethod java.io.File(String,String)]

              attila Attila Szegedi
              sundar Sundararajan Athijegannathan
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