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[jira] [Updated] (MRESOLVER-314) Getting "IllegalArgumentException: Comparison method violates its general contract!"

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRESOLVER-314?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Christian Ziech updated MRESOLVER-314:
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    Description: 
We are using the versions plugin to modify the version of a property in our pom files. This now fails for us because the compareTo method of the compareTo() method of the org.eclipse.aether.util.version.GenericVersion violates the assumption that the relation is transitive.

I wrote a small test which shows that 0f224b94-SNAPSHOT.compareTo(ecb174eb-SNAPSHOT) := 0 and 0f224b94-SNAPSHOT.compareTo(de09eebc-SNAPSHOT) := 0 but ecb174eb-SNAPSHOT.compareTo(de09eebc-SNAPSHOT) := 1.
This is in violation with:
{quote}Finally, the implementor must ensure that x.compareTo(y)==0 implies that sgn(x.compareTo(z)) == sgn(y.compareTo(z)), for all z.
{quote}
Here is some short demo code (truncated to the bare minimum I could find):
{code:java}
import org.eclipse.aether.util.version.GenericVersionScheme;
import org.eclipse.aether.version.InvalidVersionSpecificationException;
import org.eclipse.aether.version.Version;

public class TestMavenResolver {
    public void testCompare() throws InvalidVersionSpecificationException {
        String [] strs = new String [] {"0f224b94-SNAPSHOT", "ecb174eb-SNAPSHOT", "de09eebc-SNAPSHOT"};
        List<Version> versions = new ArrayList<>();
        GenericVersionScheme scheme = new GenericVersionScheme();
        for (String str: strs) {
            versions.add(scheme.parseVersion(str));
        }

        for (Version ver1 : versions) {
            for (Version ver2 : versions) {
                if (ver1 != ver2) {
                    int res = ver1.compareTo(ver2);
                    System.out.println(ver1+".compareTo("+ver2+") := "+res);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
{code}
The output of above code is:
{noformat}
0f224b94-SNAPSHOT.compareTo(ecb174eb-SNAPSHOT) := 0
0f224b94-SNAPSHOT.compareTo(de09eebc-SNAPSHOT) := 0
ecb174eb-SNAPSHOT.compareTo(0f224b94-SNAPSHOT) := 0
ecb174eb-SNAPSHOT.compareTo(de09eebc-SNAPSHOT) := 1
de09eebc-SNAPSHOT.compareTo(0f224b94-SNAPSHOT) := 0
de09eebc-SNAPSHOT.compareTo(ecb174eb-SNAPSHOT) := -1
{noformat}


Just for reference, here is the exception we are getting:
{noformat}
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Comparison method violates its general contract!
	at java.base/java.util.ComparableTimSort.mergeHi(ComparableTimSort.java:870)
	at java.base/java.util.ComparableTimSort.mergeAt(ComparableTimSort.java:487)
	at java.base/java.util.ComparableTimSort.mergeCollapse(ComparableTimSort.java:413)
	at java.base/java.util.ComparableTimSort.sort(ComparableTimSort.java:213)
	at java.base/java.util.Arrays.sort(Arrays.java:1315)
	at java.base/java.util.Arrays.sort(Arrays.java:1509)
	at java.base/java.util.ArrayList.sort(ArrayList.java:1750)
	at java.base/java.util.Collections.sort(Collections.java:145)
{noformat}

  was:
We are using the versions plugin to modify the version of a property in our pom files. This now fails for us because the compareTo method of the compareTo() method of the org.eclipse.aether.util.version.GenericVersion violates the assumption that the relation is transitive. 

I wrote a small test which shows that 0f224b94-SNAPSHOT.compareTo(ecb174eb-SNAPSHOT) := 0 and 0f224b94-SNAPSHOT.compareTo(de09eebc-SNAPSHOT) := 0 but ecb174eb-SNAPSHOT.compareTo(de09eebc-SNAPSHOT) := 1.
This is in violation with:
{quote}
Finally, the implementor must ensure that x.compareTo(y)==0 implies that sgn(x.compareTo(z)) == sgn(y.compareTo(z)), for all z.
{quote}

Here is some short demo code (truncated to the bare minimum I could find):
{code}

import org.eclipse.aether.util.version.GenericVersionScheme;
import org.eclipse.aether.version.InvalidVersionSpecificationException;
import org.eclipse.aether.version.Version;

public class TestMavenResolver {
    public void testCompare() throws InvalidVersionSpecificationException {
        String [] strs = new String [] {"0f224b94-SNAPSHOT", "ecb174eb-SNAPSHOT", "de09eebc-SNAPSHOT"};
        List<Version> versions = new ArrayList<>();
        GenericVersionScheme scheme = new GenericVersionScheme();
        for (String str: strs) {
            versions.add(scheme.parseVersion(str));
        }

        for (Version ver1 : versions) {
            for (Version ver2 : versions) {
                if (ver1 != ver2) {
                    int res = ver1.compareTo(ver2);
                    System.out.println(ver1+".compareTo("+ver2+") := "+res);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
{code}

Just for reference, here is the exception we are getting:
{noformat}
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Comparison method violates its general contract!
	at java.base/java.util.ComparableTimSort.mergeHi(ComparableTimSort.java:870)
	at java.base/java.util.ComparableTimSort.mergeAt(ComparableTimSort.java:487)
	at java.base/java.util.ComparableTimSort.mergeCollapse(ComparableTimSort.java:413)
	at java.base/java.util.ComparableTimSort.sort(ComparableTimSort.java:213)
	at java.base/java.util.Arrays.sort(Arrays.java:1315)
	at java.base/java.util.Arrays.sort(Arrays.java:1509)
	at java.base/java.util.ArrayList.sort(ArrayList.java:1750)
	at java.base/java.util.Collections.sort(Collections.java:145)
{noformat}



> Getting "IllegalArgumentException: Comparison method violates its general contract!"
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MRESOLVER-314
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MRESOLVER-314
>             Project: Maven Resolver
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Resolver
>    Affects Versions: 1.9.4
>            Reporter: Christian Ziech
>            Priority: Major
>
> We are using the versions plugin to modify the version of a property in our pom files. This now fails for us because the compareTo method of the compareTo() method of the org.eclipse.aether.util.version.GenericVersion violates the assumption that the relation is transitive.
> I wrote a small test which shows that 0f224b94-SNAPSHOT.compareTo(ecb174eb-SNAPSHOT) := 0 and 0f224b94-SNAPSHOT.compareTo(de09eebc-SNAPSHOT) := 0 but ecb174eb-SNAPSHOT.compareTo(de09eebc-SNAPSHOT) := 1.
> This is in violation with:
> {quote}Finally, the implementor must ensure that x.compareTo(y)==0 implies that sgn(x.compareTo(z)) == sgn(y.compareTo(z)), for all z.
> {quote}
> Here is some short demo code (truncated to the bare minimum I could find):
> {code:java}
> import org.eclipse.aether.util.version.GenericVersionScheme;
> import org.eclipse.aether.version.InvalidVersionSpecificationException;
> import org.eclipse.aether.version.Version;
> public class TestMavenResolver {
>     public void testCompare() throws InvalidVersionSpecificationException {
>         String [] strs = new String [] {"0f224b94-SNAPSHOT", "ecb174eb-SNAPSHOT", "de09eebc-SNAPSHOT"};
>         List<Version> versions = new ArrayList<>();
>         GenericVersionScheme scheme = new GenericVersionScheme();
>         for (String str: strs) {
>             versions.add(scheme.parseVersion(str));
>         }
>         for (Version ver1 : versions) {
>             for (Version ver2 : versions) {
>                 if (ver1 != ver2) {
>                     int res = ver1.compareTo(ver2);
>                     System.out.println(ver1+".compareTo("+ver2+") := "+res);
>                 }
>             }
>         }
>     }
> }
> {code}
> The output of above code is:
> {noformat}
> 0f224b94-SNAPSHOT.compareTo(ecb174eb-SNAPSHOT) := 0
> 0f224b94-SNAPSHOT.compareTo(de09eebc-SNAPSHOT) := 0
> ecb174eb-SNAPSHOT.compareTo(0f224b94-SNAPSHOT) := 0
> ecb174eb-SNAPSHOT.compareTo(de09eebc-SNAPSHOT) := 1
> de09eebc-SNAPSHOT.compareTo(0f224b94-SNAPSHOT) := 0
> de09eebc-SNAPSHOT.compareTo(ecb174eb-SNAPSHOT) := -1
> {noformat}
> Just for reference, here is the exception we are getting:
> {noformat}
> java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Comparison method violates its general contract!
> 	at java.base/java.util.ComparableTimSort.mergeHi(ComparableTimSort.java:870)
> 	at java.base/java.util.ComparableTimSort.mergeAt(ComparableTimSort.java:487)
> 	at java.base/java.util.ComparableTimSort.mergeCollapse(ComparableTimSort.java:413)
> 	at java.base/java.util.ComparableTimSort.sort(ComparableTimSort.java:213)
> 	at java.base/java.util.Arrays.sort(Arrays.java:1315)
> 	at java.base/java.util.Arrays.sort(Arrays.java:1509)
> 	at java.base/java.util.ArrayList.sort(ArrayList.java:1750)
> 	at java.base/java.util.Collections.sort(Collections.java:145)
> {noformat}



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