Compiling some project fails due to ambiguous Record class name

[Vicente Romero]

yes this will be mentioned in 14's release notes,

Thanks,
Vicente

On 1/1/20 6:29 AM, Tagir Valeev wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Probably it's quite expected, but I'm reporting this just for the
> case. We are trying to build some opensource projects just using the
> Java 14. One of our test projects is univocity-parsers [1]. When I try
> to compile it with Java 14 (without even preview option) I see 57
> compilation errors like this:
>
> .../univocity-parsers/src/main/java/com/univocity/parsers/common/AbstractWriter.java:[711,22]
> reference to Record is ambiguous
> both interface com.univocity.parsers.common.record.Record in
> com.univocity.parsers.common.record and class java.lang.Record in
> java.lang match
>
> This project defines a class
> com.univocity.parsers.common.record.Record and often imports it using
> import com.univocity.parsers.common.record.*;
>
> Thus, the import becomes ambiguous. This could be fixed by rewriting
> the imports manually (our IDE doesn't provide an easy way to automate
> this). I wonder how many projects could be affected by this problem.
> The 'Record' type name is quite common. In any case, this problem
> should be mentioned in Java 14 migration notes.
>
> With best regards,
> Tagir Valeev.
>
> [1] https://github.com/uniVocity/univocity-parsers