JDK 9 RFR of JDK-8152174: Type annotations with a missing type throw NullPointerException

[Joel Borggrén-Franck]

Looks good Joe.

Cheers
/Joel
On Jul 7, 2016 07:49, "joe darcy" <joe.darcy at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Please review the changes to address
>
>     JDK-8152174: Type annotations with a missing type throw
> NullPointerException
>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/8152174.0/
>
> In brief, the method TypeAnnotationParser.mapTypeAnnotations is analogous
> to sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations2(). The latter
> method has a null-check to attempt to add a map entry if the annotation
> null for some reason.
>
> The fix is to add a corresponding null-check in
> TypeAnnotationParser.mapTypeAnnotations.
>
> All previous runtime annotations tests pass with the new code; the new
> tests passes with the new patch and fails without it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Joe
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