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authorAdriaan Moors <adriaan.moors@typesafe.com>2014-03-06 14:12:56 -0800
committerEugene Burmako <xeno.by@gmail.com>2014-03-07 20:56:18 +0100
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SI-8367 revert SI-8192's change to primaryConstructor when isJavaDefined
this is some weird stuff
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diff --git a/src/reflect/scala/reflect/api/Symbols.scala b/src/reflect/scala/reflect/api/Symbols.scala
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--- a/src/reflect/scala/reflect/api/Symbols.scala
+++ b/src/reflect/scala/reflect/api/Symbols.scala
@@ -919,6 +919,14 @@ trait Symbols { self: Universe =>
* For a Scala package class, NoSymbol.
* For a Java class, NoSymbol.
*
+ * Known issues: Due to SI-8367, primaryConstructor may return unexpected results
+ * when called for Java classes (for some vague definition of a "Java class", which apparently
+ * not only includes javac-produced classfiles, but also consists of classes defined in
+ * Scala programs under the java.lang package). What's even worse, for some Java classes
+ * we can't even guarantee stability of the return value - depending on your classloader configuration
+ * and/or JDK version you might get different primaryConstructor for the same ClassSymbol.
+ * We have logged these issues at SI-8193.
+ *
* @group Class
*/
// TODO: SI-8193 I think we should only return a non-empty symbol if called for Scala classes