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Bug 395987

Summary: [generalize type] Generalize Declared Type on return type does not detect field initialization, which yields to compilation error
Product: [Eclipse Project] JDT Reporter: Milos Gligoric <milos.gligoric>
Component: UIAssignee: JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: manju656
Version: 4.2.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: stalebug

Description Milos Gligoric CLA 2012-12-06 16:31:01 EST
Steps to reproduce:
1. See the instructions in code below
2. The resulting code does not compile

class GeneralizeDeclaredTypeBug2 {
    Class k = f();

    // Invoking "Generalize Declared Type" on "Class<?>" and choosing "Object"
    Class<?> f() { // LINE***
        return null;
    }
}

LINE*** would be modified to: "Object f() {"

(Thanks to Yilong Li for helping with the bug report.)
Comment 1 Martin Mathew CLA 2012-12-18 00:32:03 EST
Issue is reproducible using I20121210-0800. The refactoring results in compiler error.
Comment 2 Eclipse Genie CLA 2019-09-09 18:24:44 EDT
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.

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