Java tutorial
/* This program is a part of the companion code for Core Java 8th ed. (http://horstmann.com/corejava) This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ import java.lang.reflect.InvocationHandler; import java.lang.reflect.Method; import java.lang.reflect.Proxy; import java.util.Arrays; import java.util.Random; /** * This program demonstrates the use of proxies. * @version 1.00 2000-04-13 * @author Cay Horstmann */ public class ProxyTest { public static void main(String[] args) { Object[] elements = new Object[1000]; // fill elements with proxies for the integers 1 ... 1000 for (int i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) { Integer value = i + 1; InvocationHandler handler = new TraceHandler(value); Object proxy = Proxy.newProxyInstance(null, new Class[] { Comparable.class }, handler); elements[i] = proxy; } // construct a random integer Integer key = new Random().nextInt(elements.length) + 1; // search for the key int result = Arrays.binarySearch(elements, key); // print match if found if (result >= 0) System.out.println(elements[result]); } } /** * An invocation handler that prints out the method name and parameters, then * invokes the original method */ class TraceHandler implements InvocationHandler { /** * Constructs a TraceHandler * @param t the implicit parameter of the method call */ public TraceHandler(Object t) { target = t; } public Object invoke(Object proxy, Method m, Object[] args) throws Throwable { // print implicit argument System.out.print(target); // print method name System.out.print("." + m.getName() + "("); // print explicit arguments if (args != null) { for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i++) { System.out.print(args[i]); if (i < args.length - 1) System.out.print(", "); } } System.out.println(")"); // invoke actual method return m.invoke(target, args); } private Object target; }