Hi, Square folks.
The background here is that we're working to put nullness annotations on
more "JDK classes," such as `java.lang.Class`, at least in Google's
build system. That means that calls to methods like
`clazz.getMethod(...)` and `clazz.getDeclaredConstructor` must pass
non-nullable `Class` instances. If they don't, we see errors:
```
error: type mismatch: inferred type is Class<Int>? but Class<*> was expected
String::class.java, String::class.java, Int::class.javaPrimitiveType, String::class.java,
^
```
```
error: type mismatch: inferred type is Class<Int>? but Class<*> was expected
String::class.java, FooResponse::class.java, Int::class.javaPrimitiveType,
^
```
```
error: type mismatch: inferred type is Class<CapturedType(*)>? but Class<*> was expected
Util.DEFAULT_CONSTRUCTOR_MARKER).also { this.constructorRef = it }
^
```
Expressions like `Int::class.javaPrimitiveType` are always non-nullable,
so we can use `!!` (or `checkNotNull` or whatever you might prefer)
there without risk.
(Note that it would be possible to avoiding using `!!` for
`INT_TYPE_BLOCK`: We could do so by passing `Integer.TYPE`. The more
general case of `TypeName.asTypeBlock` could theoretically be handled
similarly but would likely require maintaining a mapping from Kotlin
type name to Java primitive wrapper class.)
As for `DEFAULT_CONSTRUCTOR_MARKER`, I haven't looked at the generated
code enough to prove that it's non-nullable here. But if I'm reading the
bytecode right, the property value is being passed to
`getDeclaredConstructor`, so I'd expect NPE there if it were null.
Let me know what you think. I could check with our internal Moshi owners
about maintaining this as a Google-local patch if that's better, but I'm
hoping that this is a fairly harmless change, and our research so far
suggests that we _probably_ won't be back soon to ask about other
changes for this nullness work.
* Rename .java to .kt
* Convert NonNullJsonAdapter
* Rename .java to .kt
* Convert NullSafeJsonAdapter
* Fix missing null-check
* Rename .java to .kt
* Convert Util (initial pass)
* Push to top-level Util
* Use extensions and properties where possible
* Use knownNotNull
* Spotless
* Clean up impl type classes a bit
* Update code gen
* Use extension for resolving
* Spotless
* Fix master conflicts
* Rename to toStringWithAnnotations()
* for (t in args.indices) {
* for (i in interfaces.indices) {
* Template