[jira] [Assigned] (GROOVY-7468) type checker should use superclass bound when expected by generics

["Eric Milles (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-7468?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Eric Milles reassigned GROOVY-7468:
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    Assignee: Eric Milles

> type checker should use superclass bound when expected by generics
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>
>                 Key: GROOVY-7468
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-7468
>             Project: Groovy
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Static Type Checker
>    Affects Versions: 2.4.3
>            Reporter: Christopher Smith
>            Assignee: Eric Milles
>            Priority: Major
>
> I believe this is a special case of a general problem with generics and the type checker.
> When I attempt to call a method {{doSomething(Map<String,Object> params)}} with a Groovy inline map, the type checker constructs the map's types as the immediate greatest-common-superclass of the values provided. For example, this map:
> {code}
> [ val1: 3, val2: 5 ]
> {code}
> is always considered to be a {{LinkedHashMap<String,Integer>}}, which can't be passed to the above method. In *some*, but not all, cases using an explicit {{as Map<String,Object>}} will work.
> In the circumstance where an inline map or other generic collection is  assigned to a variable or used as a method parameter, the type checker should be able to relax the inferred generic type bound to match the expected bound.



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