Issue1217340

This patch allows the programmer to specify the
signatures of generated proxy methods of classes in
jython.  For example (from the test):

>>> class Bar(java.lang.Object):
...  def __init__(self, key):
...    self.message = 'hello!'
...    self.key = key
...  def hello(self):
...    self.message = 'hi'
...  def storeObj(self, something):
...    self.obj = something
...  def sum(self, a, b):
...    return a+b
...  sum.sig = ('i', ['i', 'i'])
...  def storeMe(self, str):
...    self.message = str
...  storeMe.sig = (None, [java.lang.String])

winds up with something like:

public class Bar extends Object {
  // constructors still the same

  public Object hello() {...}
  public Object storeObj(Object something) {...}
  public int sum(int a, int b) {...}
  public void storeMe(String str) {...}
}

The patch in this issue is 7 years old: does it even still apply cleanly to the code base?

Also, re-assigning to nobody, bzimmer doesn't contribute to jython anymore.

This is interesting, but not the approach we would take today (we'd surely use some sort of decorator approach like the stalled clamp project). I'll close this.