On Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:07:38 GMT, Srikanth Palutla <[email protected]> wrote:

>> Problem
>> new PriorityQueue<>(List.of(new Object())) succeeds today when it should 
>> throw ClassCastException. initFromCollection relies on heapify() to surface 
>> incomparable elements, but heapify performs no comparisons on a singleton, 
>> so the lone element is never validated. Collections with two or more 
>> non-Comparable elements already throw.
>> 
>> Fix
>> In initFromCollection, when the collection holds exactly one element and no 
>> comparator is in play, self-compare the element before heapifying. This 
>> mirrors what TreeMap does for its first key (see JDK-5045147). Behavior with 
>> an explicit comparator is unchanged: non-Comparable elements are still 
>> accepted when a comparator is provided.
>> 
>> Testing
>> Added a copyConstructorSingleton regression test to AddNonComparable 
>> covering PriorityQueue(Collection) and PriorityQueue(Collection, Comparator) 
>> with a null comparator, plus the positive cases (Comparable singleton, 
>> explicit comparator). Verified the new test passes against the patched class 
>> and the existing queues() test still passes.
>> 
>> 
>> Please let me know for further questions 
>> 
>> 
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>
> Srikanth Palutla has updated the pull request incrementally with one 
> additional commit since the last revision:
> 
>   Simplify singleton check per review: instanceof + explicit CCE

@viktorklang-ora or @jaikiran  - would you be able to review this and merge ? 
Thanks

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/32966#issuecomment-6687662914

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