RFR: 8371960: Missing null check in AnnotatedType annotation accessor methods

Mon Nov 17 10:48:15 UTC 2025

On Sun, 16 Nov 2025 19:24:41 GMT, Chen Liang <liach at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I think the main impact of this change is that `AnnotatedType` is the only way to retrieve type annotations, so the accessors might see more frequent usage compared to those on other `AnnotatedElement`s.

Yes, it seems this will really only be noticed if getAnnotatedReturnType/getAnnotatedParameterTypes/etc. methods are used and something has a bug that results in invoking AnnotatedType methods with null. Seems low risk.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28341#issuecomment-3541102393