ClassCastException on collection generics for jdk8 working code
Martijn Verburg
martijnverburg at gmail.com
Sat Jan 17 17:11:00 UTC 2015
Hi Emanuel,
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Cheers,
Martijn
On 17 January 2015 at 16:58, Emanuel <emanuele.tagliaferri at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am at the Adopt OpenJdk hack day organized by the LJC, I am running
> tests cases of OrientDB (open source java based NoSql) on JDK9 (Build
> b45 ), and i got some issue with the use of generics.
>
> basically this code:
> List<Date> list = new ArrayList<>();
> list.add(new Date());
>
> List<Foo> cList = (List<Foo>) (List<?>) list;
> Date date = (Date) cList.get(0); // it
> fail here
>
> on jdk8 it work fine, on jdk9 the code fail in the marked line.
>
> the jdk8 bytecode for the failing line is:
> invokeinterface #7, 2 // InterfaceMethod
> java/util/List.get:(I)Ljava/lang/Object;
> checkcast #4 // class java/util/Date
>
> instead of on jdk9 is:
> invokeinterface #7, 2 // InterfaceMethod
> java/util/List.get:(I)Ljava/lang/Object;
> checkcast #8 // class ListFail$Foo
> checkcast #4 // class java/util/Date
>
>
> and is clear that there's a additional cast that is causing the exception.
>
> I understand that this code is not the exactly clean and correct
> conceptually, but it may be a lot of this staff out there that can be
> break by jdk9.
>
> In attachment a couple of simple example for reproduce this issue.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Emanuel
>
>
>
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