Skip synthetic methods

[jose]

Hi,

I've been trying to write some code to skip synthetic methods, however does not seem to be working.
suppose I have the following class:

public class SyntheticExample {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println(SyntheticExample.class);
  }
}

Compiling it with Java 1.4 (yeah, it has to be 1.4) I get the following bytecode:

$ javac -source 1.4 -target 1.4 SyntheticExample.java
$ javap -v SyntheticExample

public class SyntheticExample
  flags: ACC_PUBLIC, ACC_SUPER

  public static void main(java.lang.String[]);
    flags: ACC_PUBLIC, ACC_STATIC

  static java.lang.Class class$(java.lang.String);
    flags: ACC_STATIC
    Synthetic: true

and here the code to skip synthetic methods:

for (CtMethod cb : ct.getDeclaredMethods()) {
  if ( (cb.getMethodInfo().getAccessFlags() & AccessFlag.SYNTHETIC) != 0 ) {
     continue;
  }
  // do stuff
}

it seems that cb.getMethodInfo().getAccessFlags() is returning 8 (i.e., AccessFlag.STATIC) and cb.getMethodInfo().getAccessFlags() & AccessFlag.SYNTHETIC returns 0, for method "class$".

am I doing something wrong? how can I identify (and skip) synthetic methods?

-- Thanks in advance.

[jose]

answered in #39 .

To do that, you have to check the existence of the Synthetic attribute.
Check MethodInfo#getAttribute(SyntheticAttribute.tag) != null

-- Thanks @chibash