Testing Groovy against JDK 8 EA builds

[Dalibor Topic]

Yeah, lambda-dev sounds like the right place to continue the conversation, given that this seems to be more of a design issue (one way or another) then, say, a simple regression.

cheers,
dalibor topic

On 11/19/13 5:40 PM, Ben Evans wrote:
> I would recommend also talking to Brian & the Lambdas EG.
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> Ben
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> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Balchandra Vaidya <balchandra.vaidya at oracle.com <mailto:balchandra.vaidya at oracle.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi Jochen,
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>     There could be multiple issues here and will require further
>     information. I am copying hotspot-dev mailing list for further
>     guidance.
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>     Thanks
>     Balchandra
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>     On 11/19/13 03:29 PM, Jochen Theodorou wrote:
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>         Hi all,
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>         Dalibor and Rory suggested I comment on how well Groovy works with jdk8-ea. I thought I write directly to the mailing list here to share the problems.
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>         So I used 1.8.0-ea-b115 and run our test suite to give a short overview. Of course we have to look into those issues in detail at some point. Anyway, we get 31 (out of 6107) failing tests.
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>         All failures seem to be related to default methods.
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>         We have some helper methods we add to our classes and for example a class extending LinkedList gets a helper method stream() and tries to call it with invokeSpecial. The result is a VerifyError. The majority of problems are like that. Of course that means tests involving these classes have not been executed.
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>         We get also several null pointer exceptions, which seem to be related to List#sort. We ourselves provide a sort(Comparable) method on Iterable, but that method returns a List. The default method List#sort(Comparable) is void and hides the Iterable one, thus the method will return null and subsequent calls on the result fail with NPEs.
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>         Those name clashes are a bit problem here I must say. Sure, we can rename our method, but numerous examples out there use it. And worse, our method is not mutating, the jdk one is. I am not yet sure what we will do about that in general.
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>         bye Jochen
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