Check a constructor's purity against its class's instance initializers - #8113
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Previously, `checkPurityAnnotations` scanned only `MethodTree.getBody()`, so a
constructor's `@SideEffectFree`/`@Deterministic`/`@Pure` annotation was never
checked against the instance initializer blocks and instance field initializers
that the compiler runs as part of the constructor. This was accepted:
class C {
int x = sideEffectingMethod();
@SideEffectFree C() {}
}
The initializers are not attributed to a constructor that delegates via
`this(...)`, since they run as part of the constructor it delegates to, which is
checked at the delegating call like any other method call. Static initializers,
including enum constants, are not attributed to any constructor.
`PurityChecker.checkPurity()` gains an overload that checks several `TreePath`s
against one `PurityResult`, for code that runs as a unit but is not contiguous.
`PurityChecker.assignmentCheck` now decides whether it is in a constructor by
walking up only as far as the enclosing class, rather than using
`TreePathUtil.inConstructor`. Otherwise an initializer of a local or anonymous
class would consult the method enclosing the class declaration, and assigning a
field of the class in its own initializer would be reported as a side effect.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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`reportPurityError` used `reportError`, so the same error could be issued more than once at the same tree: an initializer is checked as part of every constructor that runs it, and every checker of a compound checker checks purity independently. A class with two `@SideEffectFree` constructors and an impure field initializer produced two identical errors, and the Nullness Checker produced two of every purity error. Use `reportOnce` instead. The per-directory test framework does not distinguish duplicate diagnostics, so `PurityInitializers.TwoConstructors` documents the intended behavior but cannot detect a regression; check that case with `javac` directly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A3mGe1a9p7MJ1jYyKLraQU
Commit b083d26 added that method, along with `TreeUtils.getExplicitConstructorCall`, for exactly this purpose, but it had no callers. Use it instead of a private copy in `BaseTypeVisitor`. Besides avoiding two implementations of one rule, it guards against an interface, whose fields are implicitly static and whose tree modifiers therefore need not contain `static`. This is behavior-preserving -- interfaces have no constructors -- so it adds no test; the existing `PurityInitializers` tests cover the collection of initializers. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A3mGe1a9p7MJ1jYyKLraQU
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Suggested reviewers: Priority: ⬇️ Low Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Constructor purity checking now includes instance initializers, but static initialization in nested classes can be incorrectly accepted as pure, producing missed diagnostics. Anonymous-class initializer behavior also lacks regression coverage, so this should be resolved before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 2 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
✅ Passed checks (2 passed)
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`@dataflow/src/main/java/org/checkerframework/dataflow/util/PurityChecker.java`:
- Around line 440-453: Update inConstructorOrInitializer to distinguish instance
initializers from static field initializers and static initializer blocks, so
assignmentCheck’s exemption applies only to non-static fields; also remove the
Javadoc statement claiming static initializer code runs during object
construction.
In `@framework/tests/flow/PurityInitializers.java`:
- Around line 124-141: Add a test in PurityInitializers.java covering an
anonymous class with an instance initializer that calls bump(), and annotate the
call with the expected purity.not.sideeffectfree.call diagnostic. Keep the test
focused on verifying initializer handling for the anonymous class path in
PurityChecker.inConstructorOrInitializer.
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| private boolean inConstructorOrInitializer() { | ||
| for (TreePath p = getCurrentPath(); p != null; p = p.getParentPath()) { | ||
| Tree leaf = p.getLeaf(); | ||
| if (leaf instanceof MethodTree methodTree) { | ||
| return TreeUtils.isConstructor(methodTree); | ||
| } | ||
| if (leaf instanceof ClassTree) { | ||
| // No method intervenes between the class and the code, so the code is in an | ||
| // initializer of the class. | ||
| return true; | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
| return false; | ||
| } |
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Exclude static field assignments from constructor or initializer exemptions.
PurityCheckerHelper recursively scans nested class members. assignmentCheck permits assignments to fields of the current class when inConstructorOrInitializer() returns true. That method returns true at the first enclosing ClassTree, including static field initializers and static initializer blocks. A static field assignment in a nested local or anonymous class can therefore bypass the purity check.
Restrict the exemption to non-static fields. Remove the Javadoc claim that static initializer code runs during object construction.
🐛 Proposed fix
- if (fieldElt != null && isFieldInCurrentClass(fieldElt) && inConstructorOrInitializer()) {
+ if (fieldElt != null
+ && !ElementUtils.isStatic(fieldElt)
+ && isFieldInCurrentClass(fieldElt)
+ && inConstructorOrInitializer()) {
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In `@dataflow/src/main/java/org/checkerframework/dataflow/util/PurityChecker.java`
around lines 440 - 453, Update inConstructorOrInitializer to distinguish
instance initializers from static field initializers and static initializer
blocks, so assignmentCheck’s exemption applies only to non-static fields; also
remove the Javadoc statement claiming static initializer code runs during object
construction.
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| // The same holds for a local class. Its initializers run when it is instantiated, so what | ||
| // matters is the class member that encloses them, not the method that encloses the class. | ||
| Object localClass() { | ||
| class Local { | ||
| int x; | ||
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| // :: error: [purity.not.sideeffectfree.call] | ||
| int y = bump(); | ||
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| x = 1; | ||
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| @SideEffectFree | ||
| Local() {} | ||
| } | ||
| return new Local(); | ||
| } |
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Add an anonymous-class initializer test.
dataflow.util.PurityChecker.inConstructorOrInitializer explicitly handles local and anonymous classes. PurityInitializers.java tests only a local class. Add an anonymous class with an instance initializer and the expected purity.not.sideeffectfree.call diagnostic.
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In `@framework/tests/flow/PurityInitializers.java` around lines 124 - 141, Add a
test in PurityInitializers.java covering an anonymous class with an instance
initializer that calls bump(), and annotate the call with the expected
purity.not.sideeffectfree.call diagnostic. Keep the test focused on verifying
initializer handling for the anonymous class path in
PurityChecker.inConstructorOrInitializer.
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Previously,
checkPurityAnnotationsscanned onlyMethodTree.getBody(), so aconstructor's
@SideEffectFree/@Deterministic/@Pureannotation was neverchecked against the instance initializer blocks and instance field initializers
that the compiler runs as part of the constructor. This was accepted:
This pull request now issues an error on this code.