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  2. JDK-8235550

Clarify record reflective support specification

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed
    • P2
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 14
    • 14
    • core-libs

    Description

      A number of issues and/or concerns have been raised recently relating
      to the reflective support for records. These arose when finalizing and
      completing the runtime CSR. Taken together they seem to lead back to a
      few small, but significant, omissions in the spec that would be good to
      tighten up. It is important that it be possible to reflectively reason
      about record classes in a way that is unambiguous and provides
      certainty that the record class is well-formed.

      For a class to be a record class, then:

        1) It's direct superclass must be java.lang.Record, and
        2) It must have a Record attribute.

      The entry point to the reflective API for records is the two methods:
      Class::isRecord and Class::getRecordComponents.

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              chegar Chris Hegarty
              chegar Chris Hegarty
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