java - How to correctly determine that an object is a lambda?

Question

I see that the class of a lambda is isSynthetic() && !isLocalOrAnonymousClass(), but I presume that the same may be true for proxy classes.

Of course, I could check that getDeclaredMethods().length == 1 and apply regexp to the class name.

However I want to know if there is a more elegant and robust option to find out if a given object is a lambda.

Answer 1

There is no official way to do this, by design. Lambdas are part of the language; and are integrated into the type system through functional interfaces. There should be no need to distinguish a Runnable that began life as a lambda, a named class, or an inner class -- they're all Runnables. If you think you have to "deal with lambda" by taking apart the class file, you're almost certainly doing something wrong!