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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hi Denis,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>That is by design. Spark needs to propagate type information to the base object of a method call. If these base object comes from a reflective call or a factory method inside a phantom class, the type information is not available through the PAG propagation and there will not be any outgoing call edges. In that case, your best bet is to take the declared callee.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> Steven<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Von:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> soot-list-bounces@CS.McGill.CA [mailto:soot-list-bounces@CS.McGill.CA] <b>Im Auftrag von </b>Denis </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Bogdanas<br><b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 4. Mai 2016 00:42<br><b>An:</b> soot-list@CS.McGill.CA<br><b>Betreff:</b> [Soot-list] calls to objects instantiated through reflection not detected<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>Looks like Spark doesn't process the objects instantiated through reflection.<br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>For the following code:<br><br>try {<br> locationManager = LocationManager.class.newInstance();<br>} catch (I...) { }<br>locationManager.addGpsStatusListener(null);<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>edge to addGpsStatusListener() is not in the call graph. I've looked into the support for reflection in soot source code, looks like at least this scenario should be supported.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Am I wrong somewhere?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>thanks,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Denis<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>