[GROOVY-454] Ambiguous method overloading

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-beta-4
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-beta-6
• Environment: mac os x (panther) beta-4 with latest snapshot jar, jdk 1.4.2
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Owen Densmore
• Created: 08/May/04 12:34
• Updated: 11/Dec/04 17:19
• Resolved: 11/Dec/04 17:19

Description

Running either of these code fragments causes the error shown:

import java.awt.Color;
int i = 1;
Color c = new Color(i, i, i);

import java.awt.Color;
Color c = new Color(1, 2, 3);

Caught: groovy.lang.GroovyRuntimeException: Ambiguous method overloading for method: <init>. Cannot resolve which method to invoke due to overlapping prototypes between: [float, float, float] and: [int, int, int]
groovy.lang.GroovyRuntimeException: Ambiguous method overloading for method: <init>. Cannot resolve which method to invoke due to overlapping prototypes between: [float, float, float] and: [int, int, int]
at groovy.lang.MetaClass.checkForInvalidOverloading(MetaClass.java:1282)
at groovy.lang.MetaClass.chooseMostSpecificParams(MetaClass.java:1256)
at groovy.lang.MetaClass.chooseMethod(MetaClass.java:1187)
at groovy.lang.MetaClass.invokeConstructor(MetaClass.java:405)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.Invoker.invokeConstructorOf(Invoker.java:159)
at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper.invokeConstructorOf(InvokerHelper.java:133)
at test.run(test.groovy:4)