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 src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/reflect/Executable.java line 289: > 287: * artifact</a>, the number of returned parameters can differ > 288: * depending on whether or not generic information is present. If > 289: * generic information is present, only parameters implicitly or It may be helpful to link to javax.lang.model.util.Elements.Origin.MANDATED and javax.lang.model.util.Elements.Origin.SYNTHETIC to give the reader some more context here. If you do that, you may need to add some SuppressWarnings to make the compile-time doclint checking work due to the cross-module linkage. ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17070#discussion_r1424643273
