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Bug 8058

Summary:	ClazzDataObject does not recognize bytecode with multiple methods differing only in return type
Product:	java	Reporter:	Jesse Glick <jglick>
Component:	Unsupported	Assignee:	issues@java <issues>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P4
Version:	3.x
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Attachments:	patch to correct this bug

Description Jesse Glick 2000-10-27 14:45:04 UTC

[trunk build Oct 27 2000]

Curious to see what would happen, I mounted lib/patches/openide-compat.jar from
a new IDE build in Filesystems and explored to
org/openide/util/actions/SystemAction.class. This bytecode file has two methods
differing only in return type:

	public final Icon getIcon ();
	public final ImageIcon getIcon ();

Note that a Java compiler cannot produce such a classfile, but you can create it
manually and the JVM will accept it.

The IDE only displayed one of the methods (the one with ImageIcon as the return
type).

Comment 1 Tomas Hurka 2001-01-24 08:07:59 UTC

OK, I added return type of the method as a part of MethodElement.Key object.
This is optional, you can still create MethodElementKey without return type to
retain backward compatibility. Proposed patch will be attached in the next
comment.

Comment 2 Tomas Hurka 2001-01-24 08:10:59 UTC

Created attachment 493 [details]
patch to correct this bug

Comment 3 Svata Dedic 2001-01-24 09:21:59 UTC

Thanks, Tomas, for the fix :-)

Comment 4 Jan Becicka 2001-02-13 10:59:59 UTC

[dev-125] Verified

Comment 5 Quality Engineering 2003-06-30 16:44:16 UTC

Resolved for 3.3.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.