[jira] [Resolved] (FELIX-4455) Missing default constructor creates invalid class instances

["Clement Escoffier (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-4455?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Clement Escoffier resolved FELIX-4455.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

> Missing default constructor creates invalid class instances
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FELIX-4455
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-4455
>             Project: Felix
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: iPOJO
>    Affects Versions: ipojo-manipulator-1.10.1, ipojo-manipulator-1.11.1
>            Reporter: Benjamin Debeerst
>
> Consider the following component definition: 
> @Component
> @Instantiate
> public class ComponentWithoutDefaultConstructor
> {
>     private Object internal = new Object();
>     @Property
>     private String property;
>     /* Constructor for unit tests */
>     public ComponentWithoutDefaultConstructor(String property)
>     {
>         System.out.println("Non-default constructor call!");
>         this.property = property;
>     }
>     @Validate
>     public void activate()
>     {
>         System.out.println("ComponentWithoutDefaultConstructor: activating!");
>         System.out.println(this.internal);
>     }
> }
> As per definition, I would expect every instance of this class to have a non-null member {{internal}} at class creation. This is all fine for my unit tests in a non-OSGi environment.
> However, having this processes by iPOJO and putting this in an OSGi container, the component outputs 
> ComponentWithoutDefaultConstructor: activating!
> null
> The existing non-default constructor is not called, while it seems that a separate constructor has been created that does non instantiate the member variable.
> If I extend the code by an empty default constructor, that one is called and all works perfectly fine.
> I have no idea how iPOJO creates the object instance anyways, as it should not be possible to create such an invalid object instance. I don't know much about the reflection APIs or byte code manipulation though.
> I have put a sample maven project on GitHub[1], which can be built and droppped into a fresh Karaf container + iPOJO, which shows the problem.
> If there is no constructor iPOJO can use, I would expect iPOJO to either A) throw a warning/error (and build or runtime) and fail to instantiate the component or B) synthesize the default constructor properly, including the implicit instantiation of member variables.
> I encountered this problem both with iPOJO 1.10.1 and 1.11.1.
> [1] https://github.com/BenjaminDebeerst/ipojo-component-constructor-sample



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