Make reflection optional

[bennidi]

Reflection is currently used to configure and invoke handlers. In some environments like the Android Java VM reflection is limited and/or slow, hence it would help to have an alternative way of using mbassador. There is the already custom handler invocation. After a quick look, it seems like it should be enough to provide a way of declarative creation of a handler metadata object and corresponding subscription methods.

[bwzhang2011]

bennidi, how does it going on ? it sounds more perfect idea like custom pendingQueue messages support brought in. looking foward to those in the future release.

[Maaartinus]

Maybe you could use an annotation processor to do some work in at compile time (e.g., find all subscribers in the whole class hierarchy or generate code calling them instead of using reflection). There's a Guice derivative doing exactly this (I can't recall its name).

[bennidi]

Not going to happen anytime soon. Android is not a main target platform of this library. Removing reflection is a bigger piece of work.