[jira] [Commented] (BCEL-243) Type.getType() needs to understand TypeVariableSignature(s)

["Mark Roberts (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Mark Roberts commented on BCEL-243:
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I have attached a test snippet that demonstrates the problem.

In general, BCEL has not been updated to fully support generics.  There is a basic flaw throughout the code base that assumes a Java 'descriptor' and a Java 'signature' are the same thing.  Kinda sorta true before generics, but definitely wrong now.  In the process of working on this example I found two more places that are incorrect, no doubt there are many more.  [for the record: the constructor for generic.ObjectType and classfile.Signature.translate()]

I'm not proposing we fix this larger problem for 6.0, but it should be noted as a significant work item for the future.

> Type.getType() needs to understand TypeVariableSignature(s)
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: BCEL-243
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BCEL-243
>             Project: Commons BCEL
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Mark Roberts
>         Attachments: b243test.txt, type.diff
>
>
> Correct Type.getType() to use the updated Type support added as part of BCEL-197.



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