Castable to anything or dynamically add interface to Dynamic Proxy

[taotree]

I have your typical creation of a DynamicProxy:

MyInterface handler = (Gra) Proxy.newProxyInstance(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader(), new Class<?>[] { MyInterface.class }, handler);


After this, now I want handler to be castable to a different interface, let's say Iface2.

If I try to do so:

Iface2 try = (Iface2)handler;


it will throw a class cast exception. I know I could create a new proxy, but that won't work for me because I may already have places in the code that have a reference to this specific instance.

So, either I want to be able to magically make the handler instance castable to a new type, or... is there some way in the initial creation of handler that I could make it castable to any anything to begin with?

I want a proxy that is castable to anything (or that I can add things at runtime)--any calls to it go to InvocationHandler.invoke anyway, so... casting doesn't matter.

Thanks!

[dlorde]

Java doesn't have magic casting, and you can only cast to the original type or a superclass of it.

If you can explain what you are trying to achieve by this casting, maybe we can suggest an alternative.

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