/* * @test /nodynamiccopyright/ * @bug 4607420 * @summary A bug in the original JSR14 generics specification * created a loophole in the type system. * * @compile/fail/ref=Nonlinear.out -XDrawDiagnostics Nonlinear.java */ public class Nonlinear { // This is an example of lack of type safety for // the version of javac from jsr14_adding_generics-1_0-ea // It is a variant of the "classic" problem with polymorphic // references in SML, which resulted in the usual array of // fixes: notably value polymorphism. // This code compiles, but produces a ClassCastException // when executed, even though there are no explicit casts in // the program. public static void main (String [] args) { Integer x = Integer.valueOf(5); String y = castit (x); System.out.println (y); } static A castit (B x) { // This method casts any type to any other type. // Oh dear. This shouldn't type check, but does // because build () returns a type Ref<*> // which is a subtype of RWRef. final RWRef r = build (); r.set (x); return r.get (); } static Ref build () { return new Ref (); } // Another way of doing this is a variant of the crackit // example discussed in the draft specification. // // The original duplicate was: // // static Pair duplicate (A x) { // return new Pair (x,x); // } // // which breaks the requirement that a type variable // instantiated by * only occurs once in the result type. // // However, we can achieve the same result with a different // type for duplicate, which uses its type variables linearly // in the result: static > Pair,B> duplicate (B x) { return new Pair,B> (x,x); } // the cheat here is that A and B are used linearly in the result // type, but not in the polymorphic bounds. // We can use that to give an alternative implementation of // castit. static A castit2 (B x) { Pair , Ref> p = duplicate (build ()); p.snd.set (x); return p.fst.get (); } } interface RWRef { public A get (); public void set (B x); } class Ref implements RWRef { A contents; public void set (A x) { contents = x; } public A get () { return contents; } } class Pair { final A fst; final B snd; Pair (A fst, B snd) { this.fst = fst; this.snd = snd; } }