[armedbear-devel] Losing type information after storing in java.util.ArrayList

[Mark Evenson]

On 3/23/10 5:58 PM, David Kirkman wrote:
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>> Comments and advice solicited.
>>
>
> intendedType ends up as java.lang.Object for any java object I move into and
> out of an ArrayList -- not just arrays.  As far as I can tell, lisp
> objects move back
> and forth with no trouble, (inspect ..) does not show any difference
> for a hash table
> I move back and forth, but (inspect ..) does show that a java.io.File moved back
> and forth ends up with a changed intendedType.
>
> I'm doing a lot of this sort of thing, and the example with
> sys::%make-byte-array-output-string is the only thing that gave me trouble.
> Even when a java.io.File ends up with Object as it's intendedType, it
> still works
> fine with (jcall ...).  I assume that there would only be trouble when
> JavaObject.javaInstance() is called, which is apparently not that often!

This partially answers my concerns about testing, as your use certainly 
sounds like it is  validating the change and the current structure.  The 
other part of my concerns would be addressed by more extensive tests for 
the Java FFI in our unit tests, which I will place on my TODO list.



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