GetMethod ambiguous because of bridge methods?
Hi,
I stumbled open this entry in the API.
It says that getMethod might find more than one matching method due to bridge methods with the same signature but different return type.
But according to the algorithm for finding a method described in the API, when several matching methods are found, the one with the most specific return type is chosen. What I don't get: is it even possible that a method and its bridge method have return types that are equivalent in terms of "specificity"?
Maybe I'm not creative enough, but can't manage to come up with an example. The type of the bridge method should always be more general than the type of the method it is supposed to bridge, because otherwise, in my experiments, a bridge method is not even generated in the first place.
Any help would be appreciated :)
mdux wrote:
Hi,
I stumbled open this entry in the API.
It says that getMethod might find more than one matching method due to bridge methods with the same signature but different return type.
But according to the algorithm for finding a method described in the API, when several matching methods are found, the one with the most specific return type is chosen. What I don't get: is it even possible that a method and its bridge method have return types that are equivalent in terms of "specificity"?
Maybe I'm not creative enough, but can't manage to come up with an example. The type of the bridge method should always be more general than the type of the method it is supposed to bridge, because otherwise, in my experiments, a bridge method is not even generated in the first place.
Any help would be appreciated :)The javadocs explain the following...
"Note that there may be more than one matching method in a class because while the Java language forbids a class to declare multiple methods with the same signature but different return types, the Java virtual machine does not."
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