ClassCastException is thrown by java.util.Scanner when a NumberFormatProvider is used.

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A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
When ICU4J Locale SP module is used, simple Scanner use as below throws ClassCastException.

Code snippet
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        System.out.print("Enter an integer: ");
        Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
        int number = sc.nextInt();
        System.out.println("You entered: " + number);

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Exception stack trace

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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: com.ibm.icu.impl.jdkadapter.NumberFormatICU cannot be cast to java.text.DecimalFormat
at java.util.Scanner.useLocale(Scanner.java:1186)
at java.util.Scanner.<init>(Scanner.java:540)
at java.util.Scanner.<init>(Scanner.java:563)
at test.ScannerTest.main(ScannerTest.java:11)

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com.ibm.icu.impl.jskadapter.NumberFormatICU implements java.text.spi.NumberFormatProvider. The method, getNumberInstance(Locale) returns an instance of com.ibm.icu.impl.jdkadapter.NumberFormatICU that extends java.text.NumberFormat.

In java.util.Scanner, NumberFormat object returned by NumberFormat#getNumberInstance(Locale) is casted to java.text.DecimalFormat without any type check. Because NumberFormatICU is not a subclass of DecimalFormat, it triggers ClassCastException.

Below is the site throwing ClassCastException.

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   public Scanner useLocale(Locale locale) {
        if (locale.equals(this.locale))
            return this;

        this.locale = locale;
        DecimalFormat df =
            (DecimalFormat)NumberFormat.getNumberInstance(locale);
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STEPS TO FOLLOW TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM :
1) Download ICU4J core library and locale provider from ICU4J project site -

http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4j/59.1/icu4j-59_1.jar
http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4j/59.1/icu4j-localespi-59_1.jar

2) Run above java code snippet with JVM arguments

-Djava.ext.dirs=<directory containing above 2 jar files> -Djava.locale.providers=SPI,JRE




ERROR MESSAGES/STACK TRACES THAT OCCUR :
 java.lang.ClassCastException: com.ibm.icu.impl.jdkadapter.NumberFormatICU cannot be cast to java.text.DecimalFormat
at java.util.Scanner.useLocale(Scanner.java:1186)
at java.util.Scanner.<init>(Scanner.java:540)
at java.util.Scanner.<init>(Scanner.java:563)
at test.ScannerTest.main(ScannerTest.java:11)

REPRODUCIBILITY :
This bug can be reproduced always.