hello. i have an (external) library class that crashes in some rare circumstances. so i want to over...

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[li'lfluf]

hello. i have an (external) library class that crashes in some rare circumstances. so i want to override one method and yolo suppress the exception. the method is not public though. it seems that i can override it if i make a new file with the package of that class (package library.package). is there a reason i shouldn't do this?

[crummy]

perhaps this is a use case for reflection?

[louiscad]

If you have a way to inject the instance where the override is missing (including with reflection), yes, you can have a wrapper using Proxy from Java reflection to handle the missing override and delegate for the other ones.

[li'lfluf]

i don't quite see why would I want to use reflection instead of simply having a class in a “fake” library package?

[louiscad]

If you don't need reflection, don't use it, for sure

[ephemient]

personally I've written quite a few bytecode transforms to fix up external libraries. can be done with Gradle (https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/artifact_transforms.html) or Android's build system (https://developer.android.com/reference/tools/gradle-api/7.1/com/android/build/api/transform/Transform)

[ephemient]

although if you're on the desktop JVM and not Android, you could also perform the fixup in -javaagent (which is how I unit test my aforementioned transforms)