4397513: Misleading "interface method" in InvocationHandler specification

Reviewed-by: alanb, jpai
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Chen Liang 2025-10-30 16:51:36 +00:00
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/*
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@ -54,41 +54,40 @@ public interface InvocationHandler {
* @param proxy the proxy instance that the method was invoked on
*
* @param method the {@code Method} instance corresponding to
* the interface method invoked on the proxy instance. The declaring
* class of the {@code Method} object will be the interface that
* the method was declared in, which may be a superinterface of the
* proxy interface that the proxy class inherits the method through.
* the method invoked on the proxy instance; the declaring
* class of the {@code Method} object may be a proxy interface,
* one of their superinterfaces, or the {@code Object} class
*
* @param args an array of objects containing the values of the
* arguments passed in the method invocation on the proxy instance,
* or {@code null} if interface method takes no arguments.
* or {@code null} if the invoked method takes no arguments.
* Arguments of primitive types are wrapped in instances of the
* appropriate primitive wrapper class, such as
* {@code java.lang.Integer} or {@code java.lang.Boolean}.
*
* @return the value to return from the method invocation on the
* proxy instance. If the declared return type of the interface
* proxy instance. If the declared return type of the invoked
* method is a primitive type, then the value returned by
* this method must be an instance of the corresponding primitive
* wrapper class; otherwise, it must be a type assignable to the
* declared return type. If the value returned by this method is
* {@code null} and the interface method's return type is
* {@code null} and the invoked method's return type is
* primitive, then a {@code NullPointerException} will be
* thrown by the method invocation on the proxy instance. If the
* value returned by this method is otherwise not compatible with
* the interface method's declared return type as described above,
* the invoked method's declared return type as described above,
* a {@code ClassCastException} will be thrown by the method
* invocation on the proxy instance.
*
* @throws Throwable the exception to throw from the method
* invocation on the proxy instance. The exception's type must be
* assignable either to any of the exception types declared in the
* {@code throws} clause of the interface method or to the
* {@code throws} clause of the invoked method or to the
* unchecked exception types {@code java.lang.RuntimeException}
* or {@code java.lang.Error}. If a checked exception is
* thrown by this method that is not assignable to any of the
* exception types declared in the {@code throws} clause of
* the interface method, then an
* the invoked method, then an
* {@link UndeclaredThrowableException} containing the
* exception that was thrown by this method will be thrown by the
* method invocation on the proxy instance.