Dynamic implementation for interface/abstract class in Java

Question

What's the de-facto solution for building dynamic implementation of interfaces and/or abstract classes? What I basically want is:

interface IMyEntity {
  int getValue1();
  void setValue1(int x);
}
...
class MyEntityDispatcher implements WhateverDispatcher {
  public Object handleCall(String methodName, Object[] args) {
     if(methodName.equals("getValue1")) {
       return new Integer(123);
     } else if(methodName.equals("setValue")) {
       ...
     }
     ...
  }
}
...
IMyEntity entity = Whatever.Implement<IMyEntity>(new MyEntityDispatcher());
entity.getValue1(); // returns 123

Joachim Sauer · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-02 15:35:10Z

20

It's the Proxy class.

class MyInvocationHandler implements InvocationHandler {
   Object invoke(Object proxy, Method method, Object[] args)  {
     if(method.getName().equals("getValue1")) {
       return new Integer(123);
     } else if(method.getName().equals("setValue")) {
           ...
     }
     ...
  }
}

InvocationHandler handler = new MyInvocationHandler();
IMyEntity e = (IMyEntity) Proxy.newProxyInstance(IMyEntity.class.getClassLoader(),
                                                 new Class[] { IMyEntity.class },
                                                 handler);

edited Aug 2, 2011 at 15:35

answered Aug 2, 2011 at 15:26

Joachim Sauer

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motobói Over a year ago

Proxy is only available to Interfaces, not abstract classes

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