Hi Peter, On 29 Oct 2014, at 18:16, Peter Levart <peter.lev...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/29/2014 02:08 PM, Joel Borggrén-Franck wrote: >> Hi Peter, >> >> I’m not entirely convinced this is a bug. >> >> The lookup order for getMethod has for a long time been walk up superclasses >> and return what you find there first without even looking at interfaces. It >> might be desirable to change that but I’m not sure. > > Hi Joel, > > It has been for a long time like that as you say, but for a long time Java > did not have default methods. It's unexpected for getMethod() to return a > method that is not contained in getMethods() result. > > Anyway, I have created a bug to track this: > > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8062389 Thanks. For the record I don’t necessarily disagree, I just haven’t had time to research this yet. I think this is a subset of https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8029459 but might also be worth changing separately in 9. If it is a bug, it might not be worth fixing in 8u. cheers /Joel
