Re: Changed behavior of ParameterizedTypeImpl::toString in 1.8.0_171

[David Holmes]

Hi Rafael,

On 27/04/2018 6:12 PM, Rafael Winterhalter wrote:

Hello,

I was wondering if the change in ParameterizedType::toString was intended.

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8054213

Cheers,
David
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I just found my to break after an update due to a test relying on a certain
value for this method.

My example is:

public abstract class AbstractTypeDescriptionGenericTest {
   public static class NestedSpecifiedTypeVariableType<T> {
     NestedSpecifiedTypeVariableType<String>.Placeholder foo;
     class Placeholder { }
   }
}

which changed the toString value for the generic type of "foo"
(NestedSpecifiedTypeVariableType.class.getDeclaredField("foo").getGenericType().toString())
from:

AbstractTypeDescriptionGenericTest.AbstractTypeDescriptionGenericTest$NestedSpecifiedTypeVariableType<java.lang.String>.Placeholder

to

AbstractTypeDescriptionGenericTest$NestedSpecifiedTypeVariableType<java.lang.String>$Placeholder

I am wondering if the latter is the new expected format. This does
apparently also break Scala on the latest JDK.

Thanks for any information.
Best regards, Rafael