Description Eric Nickell 2005-05-10 18:38:19 EDT

FIRST ------------------------------

The eclipse JDT is frequently giving bogus errors in two portions of my code.

In test.parc.augustus.FooTest the snippet


public class FooTest extends TestCase {
	...
	public static class MyCategorizableReportable extends 
CategorizableReportable {

		private static final ColumnTemplate[] COLUMN_TEMPLATES = {
				ColumnTemplate.staticColumn("pop"),
		};
	...

eclipse complains about staticColumn. But in com.parc.augustus.ColumnTemplate, 
there is no compilation error for

public class ColumnTemplate {
	...
	public static ColumnTemplate staticTemplate(String columnName) {
		return new ColumnTemplate() {
			public void addColumnNames(List columns) {
			}
		};
	}
	...
}

Is it worth mentioning that when this error first appeared, that 
ColumnTemplate was abstract, but was de-abstracted in a failed attempt to 
understand what eclipse was complaining about?

SECOND -----------------------------------------


public interface Splitter {

	String getCategory(Sighting sighting);

	Collection/*String*/ allCategories();

	Splitter BY_THROWABLE = new Splitter() {
		private final Set USES_FOO = new HashSet(Arrays.asList(new 
String[] {
				"ge", "ck", "st"}));
		private final Set USES_BAR = new HashSet(Arrays.asList(new 
String[] {
				"or", "er", "ue", }));
		private final Set USES_NOTHING = new HashSet(Arrays.asList(new 
String[] {
				"id", "an",
		}));

This will compile just fine for a while. Then (without any edits to that 
file), it will decide that "The blank final field 'USES_NOTHING' may not have 
been initialized." What???

Sometimes, I can make this second error go away by reordering USES_FOO, 
USES_BAR, and USES_NOTHING. Sometimes I can't. Sometimes I can make it 
disappear by deleting Splitter.class from the file structure and doing a 
rebuild. A rebuild by itself doesn't help.


Overall, these two errors are hampering my day-to-day work significantly, and 
changing my impression of eclipse 3.0.2 as a stable, usable platform for work.

I apologize in advance that I cannot post anything but sanitized versions 
these files, and that I do not have time to try to produce minimal, failing 
examples.