Invoking injected method

Question

Whenever I create a new method with Javassist using this method

public static void addMethod(CtClass targetClass, String code) throws Exception {
    CtNewMethod.make(code, targetClass);
    targetClass.toClass();
    logger.info("Method Successfully created in " + targetClass.getName());
}

and later try to invoke it with

public static void invokeMethod(CtClass targetClass, String methodName, Object...args) throws Exception {
    Method method = targetClass.getClass().getDeclaredMethod(methodName);
    method.invoke(targetClass, args);
}

I get the exception "java.lang.NoSuchMethodException: javassist.CtClassType.testMethod()"

does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 04 '14 at 13:11

The error is thrown because with
Method method = targetClass.getClass().getDeclaredMethod(methodName);
you are invoking getClass() on a CtClass object but you should invoke on class generated by targetClass.toClass().
You have to restructure your code in this way:

CtClass targetClass = new CtClass();
addMethod(targetClass, method1Code);
addMethod(targetClass, method2Code);
Class<?> k = targetClass.toClass();
invokeMethod(k, ...);

and rewrite

addMethod() removing targetClass.toClass()
Change invokeMethod()'s first param with a standard java.lang.Class

Invoking injected method

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