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if you are interested, there is an exception during initial scan (fresh userdir) Product Version = NetBeans IDE Dev (Build 110225-d7c33a5f997b) (#d7c33a5f997b) Operating System = SunOS version 5.10 running on x86 Java; VM; Vendor = 1.6.0_14; Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM 14.0-b16; Sun Microsystems Inc. Runtime = Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.6.0_14-b08 java.lang.ClassCastException: com.sun.tools.javac.code.Symbol$MethodSymbol cannot be cast to javax.lang.model.element.TypeElement at org.netbeans.modules.openide.util.ServiceProviderProcessor.handleProcess(ServiceProviderProcessor.java:83) at org.openide.util.lookup.implspi.AbstractServiceProviderProcessor.process(AbstractServiceProviderProcessor.java:112) [catch] at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment.callProcessor(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:819) at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment.discoverAndRunProcs(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:735) at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment.access$1800(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:101) at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment$Round.run(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:1040) at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment.doProcessing(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:1104) at com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.processAnnotations(JavaCompiler.java:1156) at com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.processAnnotations(JavaCompiler.java:1053) at com.sun.tools.javac.api.JavacTaskImpl.enter(JavacTaskImpl.java:383) at org.netbeans.modules.java.source.indexing.SuperOnePassCompileWorker.compile(SuperOnePassCompileWorker.java:181) at org.netbeans.modules.java.source.indexing.JavaCustomIndexer$1.run(JavaCustomIndexer.java:199) at org.netbeans.modules.java.source.indexing.JavaCustomIndexer$1.run(JavaCustomIndexer.java:161) at org.netbeans.modules.java.source.usages.ClassIndexManager.prepareWriteLock(ClassIndexManager.java:120) at org.netbeans.modules.java.source.indexing.JavaCustomIndexer.index(JavaCustomIndexer.java:161) at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.spi.indexing.Indexable$MyAccessor$2.run(Indexable.java:153) at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater.runIndexer(RepositoryUpdater.java:256) at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.spi.indexing.Indexable$MyAccessor.index(Indexable.java:151) at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$Work.doIndex(RepositoryUpdater.java:1824) at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$Work.access$1400(RepositoryUpdater.java:1563) at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$Work$2.run(RepositoryUpdater.java:1744) at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$Work$2.run(RepositoryUpdater.java:1742) at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.errors.TaskCache.refreshTransaction(TaskCache.java:460) at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$Work.index(RepositoryUpdater.java:1742) at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$AbstractRootsWork.scanSource(RepositoryUpdater.java:3435) at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$AbstractRootsWork.scanSources(RepositoryUpdater.java:3336) at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$RootsWork.getDone(RepositoryUpdater.java:3079) at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$Work.doTheWork(RepositoryUpdater.java:2159) at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$Task._run(RepositoryUpdater.java:3830) at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.indexing.RepositoryUpdater$Task.run(RepositoryUpdater.java:3769) at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.TaskProcessor$CompilationJob.run(TaskProcessor.java:610) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:441) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Jesse, something wrong in your code. Reassign back, if I shall investigate the problem.
@interface ServiceProvider declares @Target(ElementType.TYPE) so the processor naturally assumes that elements of roundEnv.getElementsAnnotatedWith(ServiceProvider.class) will be assignable to TypeElement. If someone tries to put @ServiceProvider on a method declaration, that should have been caught as a syntactic error before invoking any processors.
See https://svn.java.net/svn/sezpoz~svn/trunk/sezpoz/src/main/java/net/java/sezpoz/impl/Indexer6.java revision 144 for another similar example. It seems that the Java editor sometimes passes invalid inputs to a processor.
Joe Darcy says that processors will sometimes be called with input which is clearly invalid at a lower level (incl. according to @Target), and must be written defensively. I think the processor need not do anything except skip such input quietly - some other part of javac should have issued an error previously, or perhaps will issue an error later.
core-main #f44447798710
Integrated into 'main-golden', will be available in build *201104230000* on http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/nightly/ (upload may still be in progress) Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main/rev/f44447798710 User: Jesse Glick <jglick@netbeans.org> Log: #195983: java.lang.ClassCastException in ServiceProviderProcessor
Integrated into 'main-golden' Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/17bf5e8346a9 User: Jesse Glick <jglick@netbeans.org> Log: Yet another workaround for #195983. When will a general fix in java.source be found?
Integrated into 'main-golden' Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/a994011ae133 User: Jesse Glick <jglick@netbeans.org> Log: More #195983 workarounds. java.lang.NullPointerException at org.netbeans.modules.openide.awt.ActionProcessor.handleProcess(ActionProcessor.java:190) at org.openide.filesystems.annotations.LayerGeneratingProcessor.process(LayerGeneratingProcessor.java:124) java.lang.NullPointerException at org.netbeans.modules.settings.convertors.ConvertorProcessor.handleProcess(ConvertorProcessor.java:153) at org.openide.filesystems.annotations.LayerGeneratingProcessor.process(LayerGeneratingProcessor.java:124)
Integrated into 'main-golden' Changeset: http://hg.netbeans.org/main-golden/rev/834c56ca0aa2 User: Jesse Glick <jglick@netbeans.org> Log: More #195983 workarounds.