PHP __call equivalent for java

Question

Is there a Java equivalent for the __call of PHP?

It would make sense to me if that\'s not the case, because it would probably result in compiler errors.

From th

Answer 1

as other said, java doesn't support this.

it does have something called a proxy class which can intercept calls to known methods (rather than undefined methods as in php's __call()). a proxy can be created dynamically as a wrapper around any interface:

http://tutorials.jenkov.com/java-reflection/dynamic-proxies.html#proxy

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/reflection/proxy.html#examples

Foo foo = (Foo) DebugProxy.newInstance(new FooImpl());
foo.bar(null);

foo looks like a Foo, but all the calls are intercepted by FooImpl's invoke() method.

to create a truly de novo class at runtime with dynamic methods in its interface, you can essentially compile a class definition and use java's class loader to import it at runtime. a tool like apache's JCI or Arch4J can handle this for you. still, the class will only have those methods you specify.