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Description
I encountered some error messages on my code that can be correctly compiled and run, meaning that these errors could be false positives. After simplifying the code, I found that these false positives could be caused by incorrect name shadowing for type parameters.
Environment
- Operating System: Linux
- JDK version: 21
- Visual Studio Code version: 1.94.2
- Java extension version: 1.35.1
Steps To Reproduce
- Create an empty java project and open it with vscode.
- Create a package
demo
and aApp.java
file in this package. - Paste the code below into
App.java
:
package demo;
interface BinaryExpr {
interface Op { }
Op getOperator();
}
abstract class AbstractBinaryExpr<Op extends BinaryExpr.Op> implements BinaryExpr {
private final Op op;
public AbstractBinaryExpr(Op op) { this.op = op; }
@Override
public Op getOperator() {
return op;
}
}
final class ArithExpr extends AbstractBinaryExpr<ArithExpr.Op> {
enum Op implements BinaryExpr.Op {
ADD, SUB
}
public ArithExpr(Op op) { super(op); }
}
public class App {
public static void main(String[] args) {
var e = new ArithExpr(ArithExpr.Op.ADD);
System.out.println(toStr(e));
}
public static String toStr(ArithExpr e) {
return switch(e.getOperator()) {
case ADD -> "+";
case SUB -> "-";
};
}
}
Current Result
You will see the following three error messages:
// ...
public static String toStr(ArithExpr e) {
return switch(e.getOperator()) { // Error 1: A switch expression should have a default case
case ADD -> "+"; // Error 2: ADD cannot be resolved to a variable
case SUB -> "-"; // Error 3: SUB cannot be resolved to a variable
};
}
Expected Result
No error messages are expected because java compiler can handle it correctly.
Additional Informations
If you rename the type parameter Op
and its following occurrances in class AbstractBinaryExpr
into O
, the error messages will disappear. This hints that the return type Op
of AbstractBinaryExpr.getOperator()
may be resolved to the Op
in the superclass BinaryExpr
rather than the type parameter.
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