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| Summary: | [1.5][compiler] Improve error message in case of creation of array with type arguments | ||
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| Product: | [Eclipse Project] JDT | Reporter: | Olivier Thomann <Olivier_Thomann> |
| Component: | Core | Assignee: | David Audel <david_audel> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | david_audel, Olivier_Thomann, philippe_mulet |
| Version: | 3.3 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows XP | ||
| Whiteboard: | stalebug | ||
Regression test added in org.eclipse.jdt.core.tests.compiler.regression.GenericTypeTest#test1102 We would need to add new rules in the grammar. Looks doable. Philippe, David, Do you believe this would improve our error reporting? Since we don't have a syntax error anymore, it should help. Of course we should also double-check what we do in term of AST conversion, code completion and code selection. This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant. -- The automated Eclipse Genie. |
Using HEAD, public class X { String[] foo = new <Zork>String[] {}; } compiling this code reports a syntax error. This is right, but we might want to see if we can "eat" it in the parser to report an error when resolving the type. This would allow us to report a better error message. Something like: array type cannot have type arguments instead of: ---------- 1. ERROR in d:\tests_sources\X.java (at line 2) String[] foo = new <Zork>String[] {}; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Syntax error on token(s), misplaced construct(s) ---------- 2. ERROR in d:\tests_sources\X.java (at line 2) String[] foo = new <Zork>String[] {}; ^ Syntax error on token ">", , expected ---------- 2 problems (2 errors)