On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 07:57:30 GMT, Jan Lahoda <jlah...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Unqualified Elements.getTypeElement(CharSequence) and > Elements.getPackageElement(CharSequence) search for elements across all > modules in the module graph, and only return a value when they find exactly > one element. This is troublesome, as an element (uniquely) visible from a > root module may be "hidden" by an element that is not visible from any root > module (i.e. is internal to some module that is not in the root module set). > The idea proposed here is that these unqualified methods would first look for > elements visible from the root modules, and would search the internals of > other modules only if nothing would be found in the first round. > > The draft of the corresponding CSR is here: > https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8253168. This pull request has now been integrated. Changeset: d05df7c1 Author: Jan Lahoda <jlah...@openjdk.org> URL: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/d05df7c1 Stats: 551 lines in 4 files changed: 490 ins; 29 del; 32 mod 8236842: Surprising 'multiple elements' behaviour from getTypeElement when cross-compiling with --release Reviewed-by: vromero ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/200
