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Bug 48107

Summary:	[40cat] When a method returning an object or primitive created and no return value entered the editor does not complain. Error reported only at compile time.
Product:	java	Reporter:	uaimp <uaimp>
Component:	Unsupported	Assignee:	issues@java <issues>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3
Version:	4.x
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Attachments:	This is the screen shot that explains the reported bug

Description uaimp 2004-08-28 03:09:07 UTC

[ BUILD # : 4.0-beta1 ]
[ JDK VERSION : J2SE 1.5.0 ]

In the attached screen shot the method acrostic should return a String. But the return statement has been commented out. The editor does not complain. 

However when the class is compiled, following error reported:
Compiling 1 source file to /home/uaimp/NetBeans-Projects/MyLib/build/classes
/home/uaimp/NetBeans-Projects/MyLib/src/org/me/mylib/LibClass.java:30: missing return statement

Comment 1 uaimp 2004-08-28 03:20:27 UTC

Created attachment 17202 [details]
This is the screen shot that explains the reported bug

Comment 2 Martin Roskanin 2004-08-30 08:46:58 UTC

reassigning to java module

Comment 3 Martin Matula 2004-08-30 09:37:37 UTC

At this point this is as designed - the error checker in the editor
does not do flow analysis, so it catches just most common errors
(unresolved types, syntax errors).
Problems like exception not being caught, or no value returned are not
reported.