typeof Long is not 'number' anymore

[Frantzius, Jörg]

Hi,

as of JDK 1.8.0_101, the following JUnit test fails:

    @Test
    public void testLongIsNumber() {
        jdk.nashorn.api.scripting.ScriptObjectMirror isNumberFunction = eval("function isNumber(arg) {\n" +
            "    return typeof arg === 'number';\n" +
            "}\n" +
            "");
        Object result = isNumberFunction.call(isNumberFunction, 1L);
        assertTrue((boolean) result);
    }

This breaks e.g. Nodyn, where Long numbers resulting from java.io.File.length() are passed into https://nodejs.org/api/util.html#util_util_isnumber_object , resulting in some „if" clause now taking the wrong turn. I guess this is a side-effect of https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8144020 .

While I’m probably able to patch this in Nodyn, I find it a bit frightening that any other code out there that relies on Longs being typeof ‚number‘ will break now, in particular because there is a lot of JDK API that returns Long...

Regards,
Jörg


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