Question

I’m trying to make modal frame in Java Applet such like shown here: http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/Java/0240__Swing/Showthegivenframeasmodaltothespecifiedowner.htm. This code have start() function, that looks like

public void start() throws Exception {
  Class<?> clazz = Class.forName("java.awt.Conditional");
  Object conditional = Proxy.newProxyInstance(clazz.getClassLoader(), new Class[] { clazz },
      this);
  Method pumpMethod = Class.forName("java.awt.EventDispatchThread").getDeclaredMethod(
      "pumpEvents", new Class[] { clazz });
  pumpMethod.setAccessible(true);
  pumpMethod.invoke(Thread.currentThread(), new Object[] { conditional });
}.

When I call

 pumpMethod.invoke(Thread.currentThread(), new Object[] { conditional });

I have following exception:

    java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: object is not an instance of declaring class
    at wizard.ModalFrameUtil.showAsModal(ModalFrameUtil.java:136)
    at wizard.WizardCore.showWizardFrame(WizardCore.java:206)
    at SelfRegistrationApplet$1.run(SelfRegistrationApplet.java:55)
    at SelfRegistrationApplet$1.run(SelfRegistrationApplet.java:35)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at SelfRegistrationApplet.RunSelfRegistrationApplet(SelfRegistrationApplet.java:32)
    at SelfRegistrationApplet.init(SelfRegistrationApplet.java:26)
    at sun.applet.AppletPanel.run(AppletPanel.java:424)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: object is not an instance of declaring class
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at wizard.ModalFrameUtil$EventPump.start(ModalFrameUtil.java:80)
    at wizard.ModalFrameUtil.showAsModal(ModalFrameUtil.java:133)
    ... 8 more

Could You please tell what is wrong in this invocation and how to avoid this exception?

Answer 1

What it is saying is that the Thread object returned by Thread.currentThread() is not an instance of EventDispatchThread.

The way to avoid the problem is to find out what the class of that object really is, and use that class to obtain the Method object. (You should be able to find out what it is by printing the object you get from Thread.currentThread().getClass() at the place where you are trying to invoke the method.

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The Javadoc for invoke this says this:

“Throws IllegalArgumentException – if the method is an instance method and the specified object argument is not an instance of the class or interface declaring the underlying method (or of a subclass or implementor thereof); if the number of actual and formal parameters differ; if an unwrapping conversion for primitive arguments fails; or if, after possible unwrapping, a parameter value cannot be converted to the corresponding formal parameter type by a method invocation conversion.”

My reading of your code is that you have the right number and type of actual arguments, so it must be an issue with the thread class.