<Beans Dev> [9] Review Request: 8156043 Unstable behavior of PropertyDescriptor's getWriteMethod() in case of overloaded setters

[Semyon Sadetsky]

Hi Sergey,

Could you check which property setter/getter will be returned if to add 
an extra method:

public Enum getFoo()

is added to the  1. the test Sub class, 2. the test Base class?

--Semyon


On 5/17/2016 3:20 PM, Sergey Bylokhov wrote:
> Hello.
> Please review the fix for jdk9.
>
> We have a number of bugs which state that our JavaBeans randomly does 
> not work, examples: JDK-6807471[1] , JDK-6788525[2], the reason is 
> that the order of methods from Class.getMethods() is not specified.
> So I propose to fix this bug totally and sort the methods in some 
> order. Note that the resulted list is cached, and we sort the list 
> only the once.
> The code partly was copied from com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.MethodOrder 
> [3], but the parameters check and the order for return values were 
> changed. After this fix our bugs(if any) can be easily reproduced.
>
> [1] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6807471
> [2] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-6788525
> [3] 
> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/client/jdk/file/fb38b0925915/src/java.management/share/classes/com/sun/jmx/mbeanserver/MBeanAnalyzer.java
>
> Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8156043
> Webrev can be found at: 
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8156043/webrev.00
>