Integrated: 8327512: JShell does not work correctly when a class named Object or Throwable is defined

[Jan Lahoda]

On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 10:22:04 GMT, Jan Lahoda <jlahoda at openjdk.org> wrote:

> When JShell wraps the user's snippets with additional code to make the standalone compilable units, it uses simple names to refer to `Object`, `Throwable` or `SuppressWarnings` in some cases. These may interact with user-defined class of the same names, leading to error while running the next snippet. E.g.:
> 
> jshell> class Object{}
> |  created class Object
> 
> jshell> 1
> |  Error:
> |  incompatible types: int cannot be converted to Object
> |  1
> |  ^
> 
> 
> The proposal here is to use qualified names when creating the snippet wrappers, and to more carefully produce simple names when analyzing expressions (fully qualified names should be used when a class with the same simple name has been introduced in a snippet).

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: a407dc9c
Author:    Jan Lahoda <jlahoda at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/a407dc9cbb48c4f66af51433067925605d3bc39d
Stats:     82 lines in 6 files changed: 74 ins; 0 del; 8 mod

8327512: JShell does not work correctly when a class named Object or Throwable is defined

Reviewed-by: asotona

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/18295