There’s a difference between synthetic and having the @Generated annotation, they are not equivalent. Synthetic signals tools to ignore the method altogether (JaCoCo honors this behavior). @Generated should be applied to non-synthetic methods/classes; what a particular tool decides to do with that information is up to the tool itself, in the case of JaCoCo it’ll skip the method/class from coverage.
The reason I raises this issue is to see if there are any objections in adding @Generated to most (if not all) compiler generated methods (property getter/setter, core AST xforms) as this change touches lots of files, however it has no impact of Groovy behavior, rather it impacts tools that may parse Groovy bytecode (like JaCoCo). Cheers Andres (with no extra a) Sent from my primitive Tricorder > On 15 Aug 2018, at 22:43, Milles, Eric (TR Technology & Ops) > <eric.mil...@thomsonreuters.com> wrote: > > Andreas, > > One place to start is everywhere that "AnnotatedNode.setSynthetic(true)" is > currently called. I think this misses the methods added for a property. But > it does cover several AST transforms. And maybe the transforms that add > methods and don't call this method could do so in addition to the > modification to add "@Generated". Maybe the call to setSynthetic could > actually add the annotation. Or you could create a utility method that sets > synthetic and adds "@Generated". > > From: Andres Almiray <aalmi...@gmail.com> > Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 3:42 PM > To: dev@groovy.apache.org > Subject: Updates on JaCoCo support > > Hello everyone, > > I've spent a couple of hours with JaCoCo team members at the Hackergarten > Bern this evening. > The goal of the session was to get started with an integration test for the > @Generated feature > added in Groovy 2.5.0. > > You can see the outcome at https://github.com/jacoco/jacoco/pull/733 > > The good news is that Groovy applies @Generated on constructors added by > @Cannonical as well > as methods defined by the GroovyObject interface. The bad news is that the > test still fails > because the expectation is that *every* method generated by the compiler that > does not map > to a particular source line *should* be annotated with @Generated. The > following source > > ---- > // This annotation generates the following > // - a constructor that takes an int as argument > // - a suitable implementation of toString() > // - a suitable implementation of hashCode() > // - a suitable implementation of equals(Object) > // - a public method named canEqual(Object) > // - a getter & setter for the valRead property > @groovy.transform.Canonical > class GroovyDataClassTarget { // assertFullyCovered() > > int valRead // assertNotCovered() > > static void main(String[] args) { > new GroovyDataClassTarget() // assertFullyCovered() > } > } > ---- > > Generates bytecode equivalent to (decompiled with IntelliJ) > > ---- > // > // Source code recreated from a .class file by IntelliJ IDEA > // (powered by Fernflower decompiler) > // > > package org.jacoco.core.test.validation.groovy.targets; > > import groovy.lang.GroovyObject; > import groovy.lang.MetaClass; > import groovy.transform.EqualsAndHashCode; > import groovy.transform.Generated; > import groovy.transform.ToString; > import org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper; > import org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ScriptBytecodeAdapter; > import org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSite; > import org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.typehandling.DefaultTypeTransformation; > import org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.typehandling.ShortTypeHandling; > import org.codehaus.groovy.util.HashCodeHelper; > > @ToString > @EqualsAndHashCode > public class GroovyDataClassTarget implements GroovyObject { > private int valRead; > > @Generated > public GroovyDataClassTarget(int valRead) { > CallSite[] var2 = $getCallSiteArray(); > super(); > MetaClass var3 = this.$getStaticMetaClass(); > this.metaClass = var3; > this.valRead = DefaultTypeTransformation.intUnbox(valRead); > } > > public GroovyDataClassTarget() { > CallSite[] var1 = $getCallSiteArray(); > this(Integer.valueOf(0)); > } > > public static void main(String... args) { > CallSite[] var1 = $getCallSiteArray(); > var1[0].callConstructor(GroovyDataClassTarget.class); > } > > public String toString() { > CallSite[] var1 = $getCallSiteArray(); > Object _result = var1[1].callConstructor(StringBuilder.class); > Object $toStringFirst = Boolean.TRUE; > var1[2].call(_result, > "org.jacoco.core.test.validation.groovy.targets.GroovyDataClassTarget("); > if (DefaultTypeTransformation.booleanUnbox($toStringFirst)) { > Boolean var4 = Boolean.FALSE; > } else { > var1[3].call(_result, ", "); > } > > var1[4].call(_result, var1[5].callStatic(InvokerHelper.class, > var1[6].callCurrent(this))); > var1[7].call(_result, ")"); > return (String)ShortTypeHandling.castToString(var1[8].call(_result)); > } > > public int hashCode() { > CallSite[] var1 = $getCallSiteArray(); > Object _result = var1[9].callStatic(HashCodeHelper.class); > if > (!DefaultTypeTransformation.booleanUnbox(var1[10].call(var1[11].callCurrent(this), > this))) { > Object var3 = var1[12].callStatic(HashCodeHelper.class, _result, > var1[13].callCurrent(this)); > _result = var3; > } > > return DefaultTypeTransformation.intUnbox(_result); > } > > public boolean canEqual(Object other) { > CallSite[] var2 = $getCallSiteArray(); > return other instanceof GroovyDataClassTarget; > } > > public boolean equals(Object other) { > CallSite[] var2 = $getCallSiteArray(); > if (ScriptBytecodeAdapter.compareEqual(other, (Object)null)) { > return false; > } else if > (DefaultTypeTransformation.booleanUnbox(var2[14].callCurrent(this, other))) { > return true; > } else if (!(other instanceof GroovyDataClassTarget)) { > return false; > } else { > GroovyDataClassTarget otherTyped = (GroovyDataClassTarget)other; > if > (!DefaultTypeTransformation.booleanUnbox(var2[15].call(otherTyped, this))) { > return false; > } else { > return > ScriptBytecodeAdapter.compareEqual(var2[16].callCurrent(this), > var2[17].call(otherTyped)); > } > } > } > > public int getValRead() { > return this.valRead; > } > > public void setValRead(int var1) { > this.valRead = var1; > } > } > ---- > > We can appreciate that the methods added by @ToString, @EqualsAndHashcode, > and the property getter/setter are not > annotated with @Generated, which will prompt JaCoCo to mark them as not > covered. The rationale from the JaCoCo team > is that these methods should be annotated as the compiler is "trusted", only > those methods explicitly added to the > source should be covered. > > Thus, here comes the call to action and the reason why I wanted to start this > conversation in the first place: > - modify the Groovy compiler to add @Generated on property getters and > setters. > - modify core AST xforms to add @Generated where it makes sense. > > Related to the original @Generated issue (as commented by Evgeny at > https://github.com/jacoco/jacoco/pull/610) fields > do not have line numbers, would be good to have them. > > What do you think? > > Cheers, > Andres > > ------------------------------------------- > Java Champion; Groovy Enthusiast > JCP EC Associate Seat > http://andresalmiray.com > http://www.linkedin.com/in/aalmiray > -- > What goes up, must come down. Ask any system administrator. > There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and > those who don't. > To understand recursion, we must first understand recursion.
