[NETBEANS-463] IllegalArgumentExcedption thrown if var type used for instance variables

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 9.0
• Fix Version/s: 9.0
• Component/s: updatecenters - Pluginportal
• Labels: JDK10-LVTI pull-request-available
• Assignee: Reema Taneja
• Reporter: Reema Taneja
• Created: 14/Mar/18 06:30
• Updated: 08/Aug/18 05:18
• Resolved: 23/May/18 09:36

Description

Var type can only be used for local variables but this exception should not be thrown. We should display appropriate hint for invalid var usage.

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unsupported type: none, kind: NONE
at org.netbeans.modules.java.source.usages.ClassFileUtil.encodeType(ClassFileUtil.java:294)
at org.netbeans.modules.java.source.usages.ClassFileUtil.createFieldDescriptor(ClassFileUtil.java:148)
at org.netbeans.api.java.source.ElementHandle.createImpl(ElementHandle.java:476)
at org.netbeans.api.java.source.ElementHandle.create(ElementHandle.java:397)
at org.netbeans.modules.java.navigation.CaretListeningTask.updateNavigatorSelection(CaretListeningTask.java:296)
at org.netbeans.modules.java.navigation.CaretListeningTask.run(CaretListeningTask.java:153)
at org.netbeans.modules.java.navigation.CaretListeningTask.run(CaretListeningTask.java:55)
[catch] at org.netbeans.modules.java.source.JavaSourceAccessor$CancelableTaskWrapper.run(JavaSourceAccessor.java:273)
at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.TaskProcessor.callParserResultTask(TaskProcessor.java:561)
at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.TaskProcessor$RequestPerformer.run(TaskProcessor.java:786)
at org.openide.util.lookup.Lookups.executeWith(Lookups.java:279)
at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.TaskProcessor$RequestPerformer.execute(TaskProcessor.java:702)
at org.netbeans.modules.parsing.impl.TaskProcessor$CompilationJob.run(TaskProcessor.java:663)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:514)
at java.base/java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:264)
at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Task.run(RequestProcessor.java:1418)
at org.netbeans.modules.openide.util.GlobalLookup.execute(GlobalLookup.java:45)
at org.openide.util.lookup.Lookups.executeWith(Lookups.java:278)
at org.openide.util.RequestProcessor$Processor.run(RequestProcessor.java:2033)

Issue Links

• is related to: NETBEANS-1117 java.lang.IllegalArgumentException when using var in the class level
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #468