Property with getter from generic interface returns wrong 
readMethod/propertyType on Linux environment
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                 Key: BEANUTILS-340
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEANUTILS-340
             Project: Commons BeanUtils
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Bean / Property Utils
    Affects Versions: 1.8.0-BETA
         Environment: ==Works correctly in==
Windows XP
java version "1.5.0_12"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_12-b04)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_12-b04, mixed mode)

==Fails in==
Linux 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 #6 SMP Thu Feb 5 19:18:16 MST 2009 i686 06/17 
GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
java version "1.5.0_17"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_17-b04)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 1.5.0_17-b04, mixed mode)

            Reporter: Dave Lindquist
            Priority: Minor


PropertyUtils.getPropertyDescriptors is returning the wrong readMethod (and 
thus the wrong property type) when a method is implemented from a genericized 
interface, but only on some environments.  This seems to work on Windows, but 
fails on Linux.  (Compile environment does not matter, runtime environment does 
seem to matter.)

Take the following test class:

<code>
public class Testing
{
        public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
        {
                for(PropertyDescriptor desc : 
PropertyUtils.getPropertyDescriptors(Test2.class))
                {
                        if(desc.getName().equals("something"))
                        {
                                System.out.println(desc.getName() + "\t" + 
desc.getPropertyType() + "\t" + desc.getReadMethod() + "\t" + 
desc.getReadMethod().isSynthetic() + "\t" + desc.getReadMethod().isBridge());
                        }
                }
        }
        
        // An interface with generics, and with getter and setter defined 
'generically'.
        public static interface Test<T extends Number>
        {
                public T getSomething();
                
                public void setSomething(T something);
        }
        
        // A concrete class using a specific genericization of the interface 
(Long), with getter and setter implemented appropriately.
        public static class Test2 implements Test<Long>
        {
                public Long getSomething()
                {
                        return(null);
                }
                
                public void setSomething(Long something)
                {
                        
                }
        }
}
</code>

When run on Windows XP, and working correctly, this prints:

    something   class java.lang.Long    public java.lang.Long 
Testing$Test2.getSomething()      false   false

indicating that it got the 'long' version of the method, and that this method 
is NOT synthetic or a bridge method.

However, when run on Linux, this prints:

something       class java.lang.Number  public volatile java.lang.Number 
Testing$Test2.getSomething()   true    true

which is the signature from the interface, and is marked with both synthetic 
and bridge, indicating that this is not the 'real' method, but the 
compiler-created method due to generics.


I think that it should be ignoring the 'synthetic/bridge' method auto-created 
by the compiler, but I'm not sure why it is environment-dependent.  Perhaps the 
environment somehow controls the method definition order?  (At runtime, not 
compile time, obviously.)

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