[GROOVY-5559] Type checker should treat gstrings as strings for generic collections

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.1
• Component/s: Static Type Checker
• Assignee: Cédric Champeau
• Reporter: Graeme Rocher
• Created: 29/Jun/12 08:44
• Updated: 15/Jan/13 08:47
• Resolved: 20/Jul/12 07:47

Description

Following code:

@groovy.transform.TypeChecked
def test() {
    def bar = 1
    List<String> list = ["foo", "$bar" ]
}

Produces

[Static type checking] - Incompatible generic argument types. Cannot assign java.util.List <java.io.Serializable> to: java.util.List <String>
 at line: 5, column: 5

Issue Links

• is related to: GROOVY-5908 Cannot assign groovy.lang.Closure <java.util.List> to: groovy.lang.Closure <List>