Description Erwin Bolwidt 2004-08-21 10:32:39 EDT

I don't know exactly how to give a title for this bug, but it is easily
reproducible.

Take this example source code:

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import java.util.Arrays;

public class GenericTest {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Arrays.asList(GenericTest.class.getConstructors()[0].getParameterTypes());
  }
}
---

It will generate this compilation error: The method asList(T[]) in the type
Arrays is not applicable for the arguments (Class<?>[])
This error is wrong. There also a workaround: add an import statement for
java.lang.reflect.Constructor

import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;

Then this piece of code will compile correctly.

I discovered this bug because I have a workspace with the open source projects
pico-container and jmock in it, and they both use this expression in their
test-cases.

Sun's javac compiler of jdk1.5.0beta2 compiles this code without problems, even
without an import statement.