java:jinterface-implementation: multiple interfaces?

[Alessio Stalla]

Correction: indeed it was merged, but I didn't go as far as to make
closures serializable.

On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 09:57, Alessio Stalla <alessiostalla at gmail.com>
wrote:

> You may have luck by providing a list. However, I see a deeper problem.
> Serializable is a marker interface: it has no methods, it only declares the
> type serializable. However, you cannot just declare that an object is
> serializable to make it so; all its components must be serializable as
> well. This includes the invocation handler that ABCL creates under the
> cover, as well as all the Lisp objects that you use for the implementation,
> particularly functions and closures. And, bad news – those aren't
> serializable. So, if Serializable is a requirement because those instances
> will effectively be serialized – e.g., to persist them to a file or to send
> them over the network – you're out of luck.
>
> Ages ago I had started a branch to make most Lisp objects serializable,
> but I don't remember how far I got. I don't think it was ever mature enough
> to be merged, but many years have passed.
>
> On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 05:22, Steven Nunez <steve_nunez at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Apologies, when I said "but I can't see adding multiple implementations",
>> I meant multiple interfaces.
>>
>> On Thursday, July 30, 2020, 11:19:07 AM GMT+8, Steven Nunez <
>> steve_nunez at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Is there a way to implement multiple interfaces on a single Java proxy?
>> This code almost works:
>>
>> (java:jinterface-implementation
>>  "org.apache.spark.api.java.function.Function"
>>
>>  "call" (lambda (s) (length s)))
>>
>> except that the proxy also needs to implement Serializable. The jproxy
>> code
>> <https://abcl.org/trac/browser/trunk/abcl/src/org/armedbear/lisp/java.lisp#L118>
>> in java.lisp seems to suggest that multiple implementations are allowed:
>>
>> (defgeneric jmake-proxy (interface implementation &optional lisp-this)
>>   (:documentation "Returns a proxy Java object implementing the provided
>> interface(s)...
>>
>> but I can't see adding multiple implementations in the code. I see
>> there's a few jmake-proxy methods in there though: are there any
>> documentation or examples for their usage? Lsw2 doesn't use this at all and
>> I can't find any other good examples of using ABCL.
>>
>> Multiple interfaces from the jinterface-implementation function would be
>> ideal, as the above code could then be wrapped with a macro to produce a
>> 'spark-lambda' and be used nearly like the regular ABCL lambda.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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