<Beans Dev> [12] Review Request: 8211147 Incorrect comparator com.sun.beans.introspect.MethodInfo.MethodOrder

[Sergey Bylokhov]

Hello.
Please review the fix for jdk12.

Bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8211147
Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~serb/8211147/webrev.00

 From the bug description:
The "MethodInfo.MethodOrder" comparator violates its contract
compare(x, y) == -(compare(y, x)) for all (x, y), so sort which use this 
comparator can throw IllegalArgumentException.


The reason is how this comparator compare the return types of the 
methods. The code assumes that if two methods have the same names then 
one of the return type should be subtype of another, because of 
covariant return types. An example in this bug shows that it is not 
necessary correct, which means that this method may always returns "-1" 
if two return types are unrelated.


Note that this class was particularly copied from 
com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.MethodOrder which looks like has the same bug, 
I'll file a separate bug for it.

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Best regards, Sergey.