Wow, that works! You just saved me an extraordinary amount of pain - thank you!
I had to make one further small change, to invoke the method on RT instead of Class, but that was it. On 28 December 2013 14:16, Aaron Cohen <aa...@assonance.org> wrote: > I have the sneaking suspicion that this may be as simple as changing > > > https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/clojure/lang/Compiler.java#L697 > > to: > > final static Method forNameMethod = Method.getMethod("Class > *classForNameNonLoading*(String)"); > > > and making "classForNameNonLoading" public at > https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/jvm/clojure/lang/RT.java#L2074 > > static *public *Class classForNameNonLoading(String name) > > > I should try it myself, but may not get to it this weekend. > > > On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Zach Oakes <zsoa...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Yeah I tried this with RoboVM, but there are so many classes that needed >> to be stubbed that it turned into an endless rabbit hole, so I gave up. It >> may be a good solution for those who just have one or two problematic >> classes, though. >> >> >> On Thursday, December 26, 2013 8:37:44 PM UTC-5, Colin Fleming wrote: >> >>> In case anyone is interested in a workaround for this, I managed to >>> "fix" my compilation by stubbing out the problematic classes and putting >>> the stubs ahead of the real classes in the classpath when I compile. Where >>> those stubs return other objects that are required during static >>> initialisation, I create those classes with Mockito. I feel dirty all over >>> but it does work. >>> >>> I'm also tinkering with a fork of Clojure in the background that uses >>> ASM Types instead of Class objects. It's still a long way from done but >>> it's looking like that might provide a solution for compilation, at least. >>> I'll report back if I ever get it working. >>> >>> >>> On 15 December 2013 14:05, Colin Fleming <colin.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I've just spent some time today looking at the compiler code, and >>>> unfortunately I think the answer is "no". When a symbol is imported, >>>> Clojure currently instantiates the Class object using Class.forName() and >>>> stores that in the namespace's mapping. At the point the Class is >>>> instantiated, static initializers are run. So the only way to avoid that is >>>> not instantiate the Class and store something else in the mapping. >>>> >>>> Alex's suggestion above to store the string representing the class name >>>> and load the class on demand might work for REPL style development but >>>> won't work for AOT compilation since reflection is used to find fields, >>>> methods etc on the class during compilation. The only solution that I can >>>> see that would work for AOT would be to store some sort of class wrapper >>>> object which reads the class bytecode to get that information without >>>> instantiating the class. >>>> >>>> However both of these suggestions break a fairly fundamental assumption >>>> - that importing a class creates a mapping from its name to a Class object. >>>> I have no idea what sort of code might be out there making that assumption, >>>> but it's probably fair to assume there could be a lot of it. At some point >>>> I might look into creating a fork of Clojure I just use to AOT compile. >>>> >>>> >>>> On 12 December 2013 03:41, Robin Heggelund Hansen >>>> <skinn...@gmail.com>wrote: >>>> >>>>> Is this something that is fixable? >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "Clojure" group. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com >>>>> >>>>> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient >>>>> with your first post. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>>>> clojure+u...@googlegroups.com >>>>> >>>>> For more options, visit this group at >>>>> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >>>>> --- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "Clojure" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to clojure+u...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. 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