[LANG-1348] StackOverflowError on TypeUtils.toString(...) for a generic return type of Enum.valueOf

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.6
• Fix Version/s: 3.7
• Component/s: lang.reflect.*

Environment

Java 8 update 144

• Assignee: Pascal Schumacher
• Reporter: Dmitry Ovchinnikov
• Created: 09/Aug/17 14:31
• Updated: 10/Nov/17 16:41
• Resolved: 07/Oct/17 09:57

Description

The following code

final Method method = Enum.class.getMethod("valueOf", Class.class, String.class);
final String typeText = TypeUtils.toString(method.getGenericReturnType());

throws the following

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StackOverflowError
	at sun.reflect.generics.reflectiveObjects.ParameterizedTypeImpl.getRawType(ParameterizedTypeImpl.java:126)
	at sun.reflect.generics.reflectiveObjects.ParameterizedTypeImpl.getRawType(ParameterizedTypeImpl.java:40)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.TypeUtils.parameterizedTypeToString(TypeUtils.java:1790)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.TypeUtils.toString(TypeUtils.java:1666)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.TypeUtils.appendAllTo(TypeUtils.java:1846)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.TypeUtils.typeVariableToString(TypeUtils.java:1775)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.TypeUtils.toString(TypeUtils.java:1672)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.TypeUtils.appendAllTo(TypeUtils.java:1846)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.TypeUtils.parameterizedTypeToString(TypeUtils.java:1803)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.TypeUtils.toString(TypeUtils.java:1666)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.TypeUtils.appendAllTo(TypeUtils.java:1846)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.TypeUtils.typeVariableToString(TypeUtils.java:1775)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.TypeUtils.toString(TypeUtils.java:1672)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.TypeUtils.appendAllTo(TypeUtils.java:1846)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.TypeUtils.parameterizedTypeToString(TypeUtils.java:1803)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.TypeUtils.toString(TypeUtils.java:1666)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.TypeUtils.appendAllTo(TypeUtils.java:1846)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.TypeUtils.typeVariableToString(TypeUtils.java:1775)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.TypeUtils.toString(TypeUtils.java:1672)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.TypeUtils.appendAllTo(TypeUtils.java:1846)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.TypeUtils.parameterizedTypeToString(TypeUtils.java:1803)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.TypeUtils.toString(TypeUtils.java:1666)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.TypeUtils.appendAllTo(TypeUtils.java:1846)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.TypeUtils.typeVariableToString(TypeUtils.java:1775)
	at org.apache.commons.lang3.reflect.TypeUtils.toString(TypeUtils.java:1672)
...

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #291
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #292