New Xlint warning 'arrayCannotBeVoid' when resolving 'void[]'
Because void arrays are illegal (and nonsensical), now there is a new
Xlint warning whenever World.resolve resolves a new 'void[]'. Because
in the World class we do not have any source context, no path + line
number are logged. The user only sees something like:
[warning] arrays cannot have a void type, but found 'void[]' in
pointcut [Xlint:arrayCannotBeVoid]
Then later, if due to the returned MissingResolvedTypeWithKnownSignature
type a joinpoint does not match, there is an additional
my/path/MyAspect.aj:42 [warning] advice defined in MyAspect has not
been applied [Xlint:adviceDidNotMatch]
log line, but not necessarily anywhere near the former one.
On the one hand, this is better than nothing. OTOH, comparing the
situation with no logging message other than Xlint:adviceDidNotMatch in
case of something equally illegal like 'Foo<int>' (primitive generic
type parameter), this is actually more than we have in several other
situations and might even be regarded as superfluous. In case of
multiple 'void[]' cases within a big number of aspects, the same aspect
or even the same pointcut, the user would have no clue where exactly to
search for it. He would just see multiple log messages without source
context.
One option would be to set 'arrayCannotBeVoid=ignore' in
XlintDefault.properties, so the user would have to explicitly activate
it. But IMO, this message should be visible by default.
Another option would be to find out how to defer logging the messages
until later similarly to BcelWeaver.warnOnUnmatchedAdvice and then to
bulk-print them. But in order to achieve that, the information about the
existence of any 'void[]' occurrences would have to be stored in a flag
similar to BcelAdvice.hasMatchedAtLeastOnce, bloating BcelAdvice for
that rare case. Alternatively, each advice pointcut could be
heuristically scanned for the literal substring 'void[]', logging the
Xlint message if it is found anywhere.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Kriegisch <Alexander@Kriegisch.name>
There are two styles to convert a collection to an array: either using a pre-sized array (like c.toArray(new String[c.size()])) or using an empty array (like c.toArray(new String[0]).
In older Java versions using pre-sized array was recommended, as the reflection call which is necessary to create an array of proper size was quite slow. However since late updates of OpenJDK 6 this call was intrinsified, making the performance of the empty array version the same and sometimes even better, compared to the pre-sized version. Also passing pre-sized array is dangerous for a concurrent or synchronized collection as a data race is possible between the size and toArray call which may result in extra nulls at the end of the array, if the collection was concurrently shrunk during the operation.
Signed-off-by: Lars Grefer <eclipse@larsgrefer.de>
Reports for loops which iterate over collections or arrays, and can be replaced with an enhanced for loop (i.e. the foreach iteration syntax).
Signed-off-by: Lars Grefer <eclipse@larsgrefer.de>
Fix 436653: conditional aspect activation plus various polish
Modified test expectation system so it is possible to say
the test cares about one particular message and the rest
do not matter (prefix message string with '*') - crude but
quick.
Polished many places to exploit generics
Upgraded all the tests to work on Java8 - some serious changes
regarding ajdoc on Java8. Hopefully it has stayed backwards
compatible with earlier JDK versions (e.g. if using AspectJ 1.8.3+
with a JDK less than 8) but no explicit testing done for this.