[UIMA-4031] type system initialization of built-in arrays has wrong supertype

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.6.0SDK
• Fix Version/s: 2.7.0SDK
• Component/s: Core Java Framework
• Assignee: Marshall Schor
• Reporter: Marshall Schor
• Created: 29/Sep/14 21:36
• Updated: 29/Sep/14 21:38
• Resolved: 29/Sep/14 21:38

Description

While working Json serialization, I noticed an unexpected listing of subtype information which was eventually traced to the built-in array types having a wrong supertype. This is due to a bad initialization ordering - the part which sets up the supertype for the built-in array types was depending on some initialization which hadn't happened yet.

Fix by moving the initialization done later into the main type system setup code. I verified that via adding a test case to TypeSystemTest that this is a very old error - it existed in the code back in 2008 while still in the incubator - in 2.2.1-incubating release.