On May 27, 1:10 am, Allen Johnson <akjohnso...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone. I was playing around with the protocols/deftype stuff
> and ran into a weird NullPointerException when calling the satisfies?
> function. Seems to only happen with a java.lang.Object instance.
>
> Clojure 1.2.0-master-SNAPSHOT
> user=> (defprotocol Greeter (greet [this]))
> Greeter
> user=> (satisfies? Greeter nil)
> false
> user=> (satisfies? Greeter "")
> false
> user=> (satisfies? Greeter (Object.))
> java.lang.NullPointerException (NO_SOURCE_FILE:0)
>
> Narrowed it down to this function:
>
> ;; core_deftype.clj
> (defn find-protocol-impl [protocolx]
>   (if (instance? (:on-interfaceprotocol) x)
>     x
>     (let [c (class x)
>           impl #(get (:implsprotocol) %)]
>       (or (impl c)
>           (and c (or (first (remove nil? (map impl (butlast (super-chain 
> c)))))
>                      (when-let [t (reduce pref (filter impl (disj
> (supers c) Object)))]
>                        (impl t))
>                      (impl Object)))))))
>
> More specifically, here:
>
> (disj (supers c) Object)
>
> Since in this case, `c` is java.lang.Object, supers returns nil which
> disj doesn't seem to like. Shouldn't disj handle nil gracefully?
>

Yes, could you please enter a ticket for this?

Thanks,

Rich

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