[GROOVY-10305] Groovy records do not allow creating non-compact constructors with signature matching the record one

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.0.0-beta-1
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.7
• Component/s: Compiler, record
• Labels: ClassFormatError
• Assignee: Daniel Sun
• Reporter: Konstantin Nisht
• Created: 14/Oct/21 08:57
• Updated: 16/Apr/23 12:46
• Resolved: 15/Apr/23 18:29

Description

The following code

record X(int a) {
    public X(int a) {
        println "abcd"
    }
}

def x = new X(10)

 

fails to run with an exception "java.lang.ClassFormatError: Duplicate method name "<init>" with signature "(I)V" in class file X". Similar code in java works fine.