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package java.lang.reflect;
/**
* {@code InvocationHandler} is the interface implemented by
* the <i>invocation handler</i> of a proxy instance.
*
* <p>Each proxy instance has an associated invocation handler.
* When a method is invoked on a proxy instance, the method
* invocation is encoded and dispatched to the {@code invoke}
* method of its invocation handler.
*
* @author Peter Jones
* @see Proxy
* @since 1.3
*/
public interface InvocationHandler {
/**
* Processes a method invocation on a proxy instance and returns
* the result. This method will be invoked on an invocation handler
* when a method is invoked on a proxy instance that it is
* associated with.
*
* @param proxy the proxy instance that the method was invoked on
*
* @param method the {@code Method} instance corresponding to
* the interface method invoked on the proxy instance. The declaring
* class of the {@code Method} object will be the interface that
* the method was declared in, which may be a superinterface of the
* proxy interface that the proxy class inherits the method through.
*
* @param args an array of objects containing the values of the
* arguments passed in the method invocation on the proxy instance,
* or {@code null} if interface method takes no arguments.
* Arguments of primitive types are wrapped in instances of the
* appropriate primitive wrapper class, such as
* {@code java.lang.Integer} or {@code java.lang.Boolean}.
*
* @return the value to return from the method invocation on the
* proxy instance. If the declared return type of the interface
* method is a primitive type, then the value returned by
* this method must be an instance of the corresponding primitive
* wrapper class; otherwise, it must be a type assignable to the
* declared return type. If the value returned by this method is
* {@code null} and the interface method's return type is
* primitive, then a {@code NullPointerException} will be
* thrown by the method invocation on the proxy instance. If the
* value returned by this method is otherwise not compatible with
* the interface method's declared return type as described above,
* a {@code ClassCastException} will be thrown by the method
* invocation on the proxy instance.
*
* @throws Throwable the exception to throw from the method
* invocation on the proxy instance. The exception's type must be
* assignable either to any of the exception types declared in the
* {@code throws} clause of the interface method or to the
* unchecked exception types {@code java.lang.RuntimeException}
* or {@code java.lang.Error}. If a checked exception is
* thrown by this method that is not assignable to any of the
* exception types declared in the {@code throws} clause of
* the interface method, then an
* {@link UndeclaredThrowableException} containing the
* exception that was thrown by this method will be thrown by the
* method invocation on the proxy instance.
*
* @see UndeclaredThrowableException
*/
public Object invoke(Object proxy, Method method, Object[] args)
throws Throwable;
}