Description Luc Bourlier 2002-03-04 10:36:40 EST

When an Expression is passed into DefaultBindingResolver.resolveTypeBinding()
that contains an error, a ClassCastException is thrown from this code:
else if (expression instanceof Name) {
  IBinding binding = this.resolveName((Name) expression);
  if (binding == null) {
    return null;
  }
  switch(binding.getKind()) {
    case IBinding.TYPE :
      return (ITypeBinding) binding;
    case IBinding.VARIABLE :
      return ((IVariableBinding) binding).getType();
  }

The problem is that the binding returned is a ProblemBinding, which returns
IBinding.VARIABLE as its kind (when queried via getKind()). However,
ProblemBinding cannot be cast to an IVariableBinding.

An example of code that would cause this problem is:
public class A {
  public int foo(int variable) {
    return varble; // <-- Unable to resolve binding here
  }
}