JRuby

JavaClass#handleScalaSingletons() raises & catches hundreds of unnecessary NPEs

Details

  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Major Major
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: JRuby 1.6.3
  • Fix Version/s: JRuby 1.6.4
  • Component/s: None
  • Labels:
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  • Patch Submitted:
    Yes
  • Number of attachments :
    0

Description

It assumes every class has a classloader, which isn't the case for core Java classes on all VMs. Since it catches and ignores any exception in an effort to blanket catch introspection exceptions, the NPEs were not noticed.

I'll submit a pull request.

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  • Assignee:
    Charles Oliver Nutter
    Reporter:
    Tobias Crawley
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