Code Review Request: More tests for 7184826: (reflect) Add support for Project Lambda concepts in core reflection

[Karen Kinnear]

Vladimir Ivanov has already written tests at the classfile level, which javac doesn't generate.
They do not all pass yet, which is why they are not on by default.

Let me know if anyone wants to study the details.
Note that there is already a bug filed to remove the bridging and covariant return subsets of tests
since the vm no longer needs to support that. And we know we still need to visit in detail
the expected appropriate exceptions that get thrown.

thanks,
Karen

On Jul 25, 2013, at 10:25 AM, Joel Borggrén-Franck wrote:

> Hi Amy,
> 
> On Jul 24, 2013, at 3:30 AM, Amy Lu <amy.lu at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
>> Thank you Dan !
>> 
>> Please see my comments inline...
>> 
>> On 7/24/13 5:12 AM, Dan Smith wrote:
>>> Hi.
>>> 
>>> Per a request from Joel, I've taken a look at DefaultStaticTestData.  I don't really have the full context here, but I'm assuming that the annotations get translated into tests that guarantee 1) the result of Class.getMethods is exactly (no more -- excepting Object methods -- and no less) those methods named by MethodDesc annotations; and 2) the result of Class.getDeclaredMethods is exactly (no more, no less) those methods that are marked "declared=YES".
>>> 
>>> The expected results seem accurate.  I would personally focus testing more on different inheritance shapes and less on different combinations of (unrelated) method declarations or presence/absence type variables (!?), but it's a valid test in any case.
>>> 
>>> There ought to be some testing for scenarios that javac won't generate, like conflicting default method declarations.
>>> 
>> Testing on "javac" is out of this scope, it's covered by langtools tests, say test/tools/javac/defaultMethods/
> 
> I sort of agree with Dan here. This wouldn't be testing of javac, rather testing that Core Reflection works for combinations that javac doesn't currently emit. However I think that is an excellent candidate for a follow up test, we can address that after these test are finished. I will file a bug for this.
> 
> cheers
> /Joel