Name: viR10068 Date: 03/04/2004


The spec JSR-175 Preliminary Proposed Final Draft Specification 2
says for the method Constructor.getParameterAnnotations()
"Returns an array of length zero if the underlying method is parameterless."

But the jdk1.5.0-b41 throws the unexpected NullPointerException.
Please see execution log below.

The affected new JCK 1.5 test is:
api/java_lang/reflect/Constructor/index.html#getParamAnnot[getParamAnnot0001]

The source:
-------------------------- test.java --------------------------
import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.lang.annotation.*;

class annotElem {
    public annotElem() {
    }
}

public class test {

    public static void main(String argv[]) {
        annotElem annotObj = new annotElem();
        try {
            System.out.println("Constructor is " + annotObj.getClass().getConstructor());
            System.out.println("ParameterAnnotations is " +
annotObj.getClass().getConstructor().getParameterAnnotations());
        } catch (Exception ex) {
            System.out.println("Unexpected exception: " + ex);
            return;
        }
    }
}
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Execution log:
% jdk1.5.0-b41/solaris-sparc/bin/javac -source 1.5 -version test.java &&
jdk1.5.0-b41/solaris-sparc/bin/java -showversion test
javac 1.5.0-beta2
java version "1.5.0-beta2"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0-beta2-b41)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0-beta2-b41, mixed mode)

Constructor is public annotElem()
Unexpected exception: java.lang.NullPointerException
%

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