some nashorn testing

[Attila Szegedi]

Hey Marcus and Jim, this is similar to that bug we saw before with array literals in the ternary operator. Something related to codegen's inference of types…

On Jan 8, 2013, at 9:30 PM, Andreas Rieber <rieberandreas at gmail.com> wrote:

> I tried some cases and will go for (Nashorn and Rhino):
> 
>   var array;
>   try {
>     array = new (Java.type("java.lang.Object[]"))(len);
>   } catch (x) {
>     array = [];
>   }
> 
> The catch block works with Rhino but gives with Nashorn:
> 
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: Cannot cast jdk.nashorn.internal.objects.NativeArray to [Ljava.lang.Object;
>     at sun.invoke.util.ValueConversions.newClassCastException(ValueConversions.java:461)
>     at sun.invoke.util.ValueConversions.castReference(ValueConversions.java:456)
>     at jdk.nashorn.internal.scripts.Script$main.sprintf(main.js:114)
>     at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ScriptFunction.invoke(ScriptFunction.java:350)
>     at jdk.nashorn.internal.runtime.ScriptRuntime.apply(ScriptRuntime.java:310)
>     at jdk.nashorn.internal.objects.NativeFunction.apply(NativeFunction.java:133)
> 
> 
> cheers
> Andreas
>