On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 04:26:25 GMT, Vicente Romero <vrom...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Reflection is not retrieving generic type information for mandated >> parameters. This is a known issue which has been explicitly stated in the >> API of some reflection methods. Fix for >> [JDK-8292275](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8292275) made the >> parameters of compact constructors of record classes `mandated` as specified >> in the spec. But this implied that users that previous to this change could >> retrieve the generic type of parameters of compact constructors now they >> can't anymore. The proposed fix is to try to retrieve generic type >> information for mandated parameters if available plus changing the spec of >> the related reflection methods. >> >> TIA > > Vicente Romero has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional > commit since the last revision: > > fixing comment As the core reflection code will encounter record classes compiled before and after the javac code generation change, if the old behavior can be triggered in javac using `--release $OLD`/`--source $OLD`, that would be helpful to include as part of the testing. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17070#issuecomment-1852905546
