Do not pull Supertype-Cast to instanceof #577
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When the cast type expression is a supertype of the instanceof type, the recipe should back off. The code semantics could change otherwise, because more instances can potentially pass the check. Fixes GH-572.
What's changed?
Type casts after
instanceof
checks which use a different type than the one used in theinstanceof
check itself will now be ignored since changing theinstanceof
type might alter the code semantics.What's your motivation?
Issue #572
Anything in particular you'd like reviewers to focus on?
The
isCheckedCastCompatible
might be extended even further to take generic type variables into account. Cases like these could also be migrated, since the type variables are the same:The☹️
isCheckedCastCompatible
might be a duplicate of existing code, but I didn't find any publicly accessible methods which perform such checksHave you considered any alternatives or workarounds?
In the first try I just flipped the type
TypeUtils#isAssignableTo
parameters in theregisterTypeCast
method, but then subtype casts were pulled up to theinstanceof
check, resulting in the same problem of changed semantics.Checklist