Don't infer type arguments when the receiver of a method is raw. - #8041
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… type. methodFromUse computed an empty type-argument list for such calls (matching AnnotatedTypes#findTypeArguments's raw-type shortcut) but left the method's AnnotatedExecutableType with its original, unerased type variables, so paramBounds and typeargs disagreed in size. Erase the method type to match, consistent with JLS 4.8. Also harden BaseTypeVisitor#checkTypeArguments: it relied on an assert (disabled by default) that the two lists were the same size, then indexed them in lockstep. A remaining case -- a no-argument generic method whose type argument can only come from a target-type context that itself went raw -- can still produce a mismatch, so replace the assert with a real check that skips the (meaningless) bounds check instead of crashing. Add framework/tests/all-systems/Issue7683.java as a regression test. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The previous commit erased the method type when a generic method is invoked through a raw receiver of its own declaring type. But AnnotatedDeclaredType#getErased builds the erased type from scratch and copies over only the primary annotations, so the wildcards that the raw type lazily synthesizes for its type arguments have no qualifiers at all. When such a raw functional interface type is a lambda's target type, AbstractType#makeGround computes glb(bound, wildcard extends bound) with a qualifier on only one side, and AnnotatedTypes#glbSubtype throws "GLB: subtype: ..., supertype: ...". This crashed every all-systems checker on Issue7683.java. Call addDefaultAnnotations on the erased method type, as methodFromUse already does for the type it creates when inference crashes. Also suppress the javac unchecked-call warning in the test: javac does not honor @SuppressWarnings("all") for its own lint categories here, so the all-systems tests reported it as an unexpected diagnostic. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The type arguments of a raw type are wildcards that the framework synthesizes from the type parameters' upper bounds, either in BoundsInitializer or lazily in AnnotatedDeclaredType#getTypeArguments. They are not written in the program, and when the raw type was built by AnnotatedDeclaredType#getErased -- which copies over only the primary annotations -- they have no qualifiers at all. AbstractType#makeGround then computed glb(bound, wildcard extends bound) with a qualifier on only one side, and AnnotatedTypes#glbSubtype threw "GLB: subtype: ..., supertype: ...". This crashed every all-systems checker on Issue7683.java, whose raw-receiver invocation is erased by AnnotatedTypeFactory#methodFromUse. Use the type parameter's declared bound for such a wildcard instead. javac uses the erased function descriptor for a raw functional interface type, and the bound is also what the glb returns when the synthesized wildcard's bound is qualified, so this changes no result for a well-formed type -- it just no longer depends on qualifiers that a synthesized wildcard need not have. This replaces the addDefaultAnnotations call added in the previous commit, which is reverted here. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The type of an instance method of a raw type C is the erasure of its type in the generic class C (JLS 4.8), and the erasure of the signature of a generic method has no type parameters (JLS 4.6). JLS 15.12.2.6 determines the invocation type by inference only "if the chosen method is generic", so such an invocation has no type arguments to infer. BaseTypeVisitor#visitMethodInvocation decided whether to run inference from the type parameters of the method *element*, which are the ones on the declaration and are non-empty no matter what the receiver is. It therefore passed the erased method type to inference, which is how the raw Function parameter in Issue7683.java reached AbstractType#makeGround in the first place. Ask the AnnotatedExecutableType -- the "chosen method" of JLS 15.12.2.6 -- instead. Also make the two types involved match the JLS more closely: * AbstractType#makeGround now uses the erasure of the type parameter's bound for a wildcard synthesized for a raw type: "The function type of the raw type of a generic functional interface I<...> is the erasure of the function type of the generic functional interface I<...>" (JLS 9.9). The non-wildcard parameterization rule it implements does not apply to a raw type at all. * AnnotatedDeclaredType#getErased adds default annotations when the erased type is raw. The wildcards that #getTypeArguments synthesizes for a raw type are created bare, and a type built by getErased is never passed through defaulting, so they would otherwise have no qualifiers at all. This is how the framework annotates a raw type argument elsewhere; see AnnotatedTypeFactory#methodFromUse, which clears the annotations of a raw-type-argument wildcard so that the defaults are used, and InferenceFactory#createFreshTypeVariable. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 2543-2554: Update the receiver handling in AnnotatedTypeFactory
around isRawCall/findTypeArguments to resolve the method’s declaring supertype
from the raw receiver, including inherited members such as methods declared in
Base and accessed through raw Sub. When that corresponding raw supertype is
found, apply methodType.getErased() so the member follows JLS 4.8 raw-type
semantics; preserve existing behavior for directly declared members and non-raw
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| } else if (receiverType != null | ||
| && receiverType.getKind() == TypeKind.DECLARED | ||
| && TypesUtils.isRaw(((AnnotatedDeclaredType) receiverType).getUnderlyingType()) | ||
| && methodElt | ||
| .getEnclosingElement() | ||
| .equals(((AnnotatedDeclaredType) receiverType).getUnderlyingType().asElement())) { | ||
| // The method was invoked through a raw receiver of its own declaring type, so | ||
| // AnnotatedTypes#findTypeArguments returned no type arguments without attempting | ||
| // inference (see the check there for a raw receiver with the same enclosing element). | ||
| // Like any raw-type use, this erases the method's type parameters entirely (JLS 4.8). | ||
| methodType = methodType.getErased(); | ||
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According to the Java Language Specification (JLS) section 4.8, the interaction between raw types and members (including generic methods) is governed by specific rules designed for backward compatibility with legacy non-generic code [1][2][3]. When a class or interface C is used as a raw type, the types of its instance members (constructors, instance methods, and non-static fields) that are not inherited from superclasses or superinterfaces are determined by their erasure [1][2][3]. Specifically, the JLS states that the type of such a member is the erasure of its type in the generic declaration of C [1][2][3]. Because the erasure of a generic method involves removing its type parameters—replacing them with their bounds or Object if unbounded—this process effectively erases any generic method type parameters when the enclosing class is referenced as a raw type [4][5][6]. Consequently, generic methods within a raw type are treated as non-generic methods with erased signatures [7][8][6]. This design choice ensures that raw types behave as they did before the introduction of generics, even if that results in the loss of type information for generic methods contained within those classes [5][8]. For inherited members, JLS 4.8 specifies that if a raw type C inherits a member from a superclass or superinterface D, the type of that member is the type of the member in the supertype of C that names D [2][3]. Inherited type members that depend on type variables are also inherited as raw types because the supertypes of a raw type are themselves erased [1][2][3].
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- 1: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-4.html
- 2: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se22/html/jls-4.html
- 3: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se18/html/jls-4.html
- 4: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33735899/explicit-method-type-parameter-ignored-on-a-raw-class-type-compiler-bug
- 5: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43076830/why-does-using-raw-type-variables-affect-signatures-without-reference-to-type-pa
- 6: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11007723/combining-raw-types-and-generic-methods
- 7: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18001550/java-generic-methods-in-generics-classes
- 8: https://tarikbilla.com/java-generic-methods-in-generics-classes/
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According to the Java Language Specification (Section 4.8), the type of an inherited instance method of a raw type is determined by its declaration in the corresponding supertype. Specifically, if a raw type C inherits an instance method from a superclass or superinterface D, the type of that method is its type in the supertype of C that names D [1]. This differs from the rules for non-inherited members: the type of an instance method of a raw type C that is not inherited (i.e., declared directly in C) is the erasure of its type in the generic declaration of C [1]. In contrast, for inherited instance methods, the specification ensures the type remains consistent with how it is defined in the relevant supertype [1].
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In Java, the type of an inherited instance method or non-static field of a raw type C, where the member was declared in a class or interface D, is the type of that member as it appears in the supertype of C that names D [1][2][3]. This rule is defined in the Java Language Specification (JLS) §4.8 regarding Raw Types [1][4]. While instance members that are declared directly within a raw type C (not inherited) are subject to type erasure—meaning their types are mapped to the erasure of their types in the generic declaration of C—inherited members are treated differently based on their declaration origin [1][5][6]. In summary: 1. Non-inherited instance members of a raw type: The type is the erasure of the member's type in the corresponding generic class or interface [1][2]. 2. Inherited instance members of a raw type: The type is the type of the member in the supertype of C that names the class or interface D where the member was declared [1][4]. This distinction ensures that legacy code and complex inheritance hierarchies behave predictably according to the rules of type erasure [1][7].
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- 1: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/26/docs/specs/jls/jls-4.html
- 2: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se22/html/jls-4.html
- 3: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se25/html/jls-4.html
- 4: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se24/html/jls-4.html
- 5: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se8/html/jls-4.html
- 6: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2770321/what-is-a-raw-type-and-why-shouldnt-we-use-it
- 7: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23225728/java-behavior-of-class-members-of-generic-classes
Resolve inherited members through the corresponding raw supertype.
JLS 4.8 defines an inherited member’s type from the supertype of the raw receiver that declares it. Thus, a method declared in Base and inherited by raw Sub must use raw Base semantics. isRawCall and findTypeArguments only compare the method’s declaring element with the receiver element, so asMemberOf can leave the method type parameters generic. Resolve the declaring supertype and apply erasure when that supertype is raw.
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In
`@framework/src/main/java/org/checkerframework/framework/type/AnnotatedTypeFactory.java`
around lines 2543 - 2554, Update the receiver handling in AnnotatedTypeFactory
around isRawCall/findTypeArguments to resolve the method’s declaring supertype
from the raw receiver, including inherited members such as methods declared in
Base and accessed through raw Sub. When that corresponding raw supertype is
found, apply methodType.getErased() so the member follows JLS 4.8 raw-type
semantics; preserve existing behavior for directly declared members and non-raw
receivers.
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Fixes #7683