A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
I have a class(Bean) that has a private Object field called "value", and public getter/setter.
Another class(StringBean) extends this class, and overrides the getter to return String.
And the getPropertyType() for value in StringBean is Object. Should it be String?

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/beans/PropertyDescriptor.html

Doc: "Returns the Java type info for the property. Note that the Class object may describe primitive Java types such as int. This type is returned by the read method or is used as the parameter type of the write method. Returns null if the type is an indexed property that does not support non-indexed access."

ACTUAL VS EXPECTED BEHAVIOR
ACTUAL -
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Incorrect property type: expected String but got java.lang.Object
at PropertyTypeTest.main(PropertyTypeTest.java:32)
EXPECTED -
Property type equals to String.class

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import java.beans.Introspector;
import java.beans.PropertyDescriptor;

public class PropertyTypeTest {
    public static class BaseBean {
        private Object value;
        public Object getValue() {
            return this.value;
        }
        public void setValue(Object value) {
            this.value = value;
        }
    }

    public static class StringBean extends BaseBean {
        @Override
        public String getValue() {
            return (String) super.getValue();
        }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        PropertyDescriptor[] pds = Introspector.getBeanInfo(StringBean.class).getPropertyDescriptors();
        PropertyDescriptor pd = null;
        for (PropertyDescriptor desc : pds) {
            if (desc.getName().equals("value")) {
                pd = desc;
            }
        }
        if (pd != null && !String.class.equals(pd.getPropertyType())) {
            throw new RuntimeException("Incorrect property type: expected String but got " +
                            (pd.getPropertyType() == null ? "null" : pd.getPropertyType().getName()));
        }
    }
}

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