/*
* @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 = new Integer (5);
String y = castit (x);
System.out.println (y);
}
static <A,B> 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<A,B>.
final RWRef<A,B> r = build ();
r.set (x);
return r.get ();
}
static <A> Ref<A> build () {
return new Ref<A> ();
}
// Another way of doing this is a variant of the crackit
// example discussed in the draft specification.
//
// The original duplicate was:
//
// static <A> Pair <A,A> duplicate (A x) {
// return new Pair<A,A> (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 <A,B extends Ref<A>> Pair<Ref<A>,B> duplicate (B x) {
return new Pair<Ref<A>,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,B> A castit2 (B x) {
Pair <Ref<A>, Ref<B>> p = duplicate (build ());
p.snd.set (x);
return p.fst.get ();
}
}
interface RWRef<A,B> {
public A get ();
public void set (B x);
}
class Ref<A> implements RWRef <A,A> {
A contents;
public void set (A x) { contents = x; }
public A get () { return contents; }
}
class Pair<A,B> {
final A fst;
final B snd;
Pair (A fst, B snd) { this.fst = fst; this.snd = snd; }
}