refactor: declare eight single-module testng-core packages null-marked - #3374
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org.testng.log holds a single class in a single module, so it can be marked without dragging an unmarked half in from elsewhere through package-info.class on the compile classpath. The check demands nothing. TextFormatter.format overrides SimpleFormatter.format and concatenates two strings; there is no other body in the package. The compile is green the moment package-info.java lands, and nothing else is touched. A throwaway `return null;` in format is rejected, so the package really is under the check rather than silently skipped. No behaviour changes -- an annotation on the package and nothing else.
org.testng.thread lives only in testng-core, so it can be marked without dragging an unmarked half in from another module through package-info.class on the compile classpath. The check demands nothing. All three files are interfaces, and the only bodies in the package are IWorker's four defaults, which return -1, -1, true and nothing. The compile is green the moment package-info.java lands. What the mark does is bind the implementors, not this package: IWorker.getTasks now reads as @nonnull, and the graph orchestrator's PhoneyWorker returns null from it. That reports as soon as org.testng.internal.thread.graph is marked in turn, which is where it is dealt with -- there is no reason to weaken the interface for it. A throwaway default returning null is rejected, so the package really is under the check rather than silently skipped. No behaviour changes -- an annotation on the package and nothing else.
org.testng.reporters.util lives only in testng-core and holds one final class with two static methods, so it can be marked in a single pass. The check demands nothing: the compile is green the moment package-info.java lands. The four @nullable are contract, and the contract is all that is left of this class. Both methods open by testing their two parameters -- getTestRoot answers -1, getTestNGInfrastructure an empty array -- and the javadoc has always promised the second half of that ("or top of stack if method is not in it"). Nothing in the repository calls either method. The last caller was EmailableReporter, rewritten in 2012 by 9f4e20c, so every caller this class still has is outside the build and cannot be read. That is the reason to annotate rather than to leave the parameters bare: bare would publish @nonnull to those callers while the body goes on handling null, and this package is not excluded from the javadoc the way org.testng.internal is. Deleting the tests instead would turn a documented -1 into a NullPointerException for them. Dropping either annotation still compiles, so neither is there to satisfy the compiler. A throwaway `return null;` is rejected, so the package really is under the check rather than silently skipped. No behaviour changes -- annotations only.
org.testng.internal.collections lives only in testng-core. It is distinct from org.testng.collections, which is its own module and was marked separately. The check demands nothing: seven files compile green the moment package-info.java lands. Both @nullable are contract, and both were kept because dropping them still compiles -- neither is there to satisfy anything. ResourceAwareIterator.resource -- MethodInvocationHelper passes null literally three times (the Object[][], Object[] and raw-Iterator branches, which own no resource), only the Stream branch hands over something to close. close() is written around that: `if (closed || resource == null) return;`. The javadoc on both entry points already said "or null if there is nothing to release". Pair.equals -- Object.equals accepts null by its own specification, and the body honours it with `if (obj == null) return false;`. Left bare, a marked Pair would declare an override narrower than the method it overrides. NullAway does not report this today, so it is contract rather than compiler pressure, but it is the supertype's contract and not TestNG's to restate. Pair's own fields stay bare despite the `first == null` tests in hashCode and equals. No construction site passes null -- the closest, JDK15AnnotationFinder's `new Pair<>(inter.getAnnotation(a), annotationClass)`, sits inside an `inter.getAnnotation(a) != null` guard -- and nothing reads first() or second() against null. Those tests are residue, not a contract, and annotating them would have been decoration. ArrayIterator, OneToTwoDimArrayIterator, OneToTwoDimIterator, Ints and CloseableIterator needed nothing at all. A throwaway `return null;` in Ints is rejected, so the package really is under the check rather than silently skipped. No behaviour changes -- annotations only.
org.testng.internal.objects.pojo lives only in testng-core. Its three classes carry the arguments an IObjectDispenser needs to build a test instance. The check reports eight times, and the two halves want opposite answers. DetailedAttributes declares five reference fields with no initialiser and no constructor, so all five report at once. It is built in exactly one place -- ClassImpl.newDetailedAttributes, which calls all six setters back to back and returns -- and nothing else in the repository so much as names the type. So it becomes what it already was: a constructor taking the six values, final fields, no setters. That removes five errors without a single annotation, and newDetailedAttributes shrinks to the `new` it was spelling out. CreationAttributes is the opposite. Its two constructors assign null literally -- detailed, context and suiteContext, one per shape of the union it models -- so those three are @nullable because the compiler says so, and their getters follow. Nothing here can be restructured away: the two shapes are real, and SimpleObjectDispenser and GuiceBasedObjectDispenser branch on exactly these three being null. basic stays bare. Both dispensers test getBasicAttributes() against null, but all six construction sites pass a real BasicAttributes, so those tests are dead and annotating for them would have recorded a null that cannot occur. BasicAttributes reports nothing, and takes six annotations anyway, because both of its fields are null in practice and both are read that way. TestNG, BaseTestMethod twice and DefaultListenerFactory build `new BasicAttributes(null, someClass)`; ClassImpl builds `new BasicAttributes(this, null)`. On the reading side SimpleObjectDispenser branches on `basic.getRawClass() == null` and GuiceBasedObjectDispenser on `sa.getTestClass() == null`. Stripping all six still compiles -- every caller is in unmarked code, which NullAway reads optimistically -- which is precisely why it had to be checked by hand. A throwaway `return null;` is rejected, so the package really is under the check rather than silently skipped. No behaviour changes: DetailedAttributes is still filled with the same six values in the same order, and it was never observable in a partly-filled state.
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In `@testng-core/src/main/java/org/testng/xml/internal/package-info.java`:
- Around line 2-3: Annotate the nullable String fileName parameter in the Parser
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pkg=$(fd -i -t f 'package-info\.java' . | grep 'testng-core/src/main/java/org/testng/xml/internal/package-info.java' | head -n1)
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rg -n -C 8 'class Parser|Parser\s*\(|fileName|DEFAULT_FILENAME|`@Nullable`|`@NullMarked`|`@NullUnmarked`' "$f" || true
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pkg = root / "package-info.java"
parser = root / "Parser.java"
pkg_text = pkg.read_text()
parser_text = parser.read_text()
checks = {
"package is `@NullMarked`": bool(re.search(r"`@NullMarked`\s+package\s+org\.testng\.xml\.internal\s*;", pkg_text)),
"Parser(String) parameter is unannotated": bool(re.search(r"public\s+Parser\s*\(\s*String\s+fileName\s*\)", parser_text)),
"Javadoc permits null": bool(re.search(r"`@param`\s+fileName\b[^\n]*\bnull\b", parser_text)),
"init accepts nullable fileName": bool(re.search(r"init\s*\(\s*`@Nullable`\s+String\s+fileName\s*,", parser_text)),
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for path in Path(".").rglob("*.java"):
text = path.read_text(errors="replace")
if "org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable" in text and "Parser(" in text:
print(path)
for i, line in enumerate(text.splitlines(), 1):
if "org.jspecify.annotations.Nullable" in line or re.search(r"`@Nullable`\s+String", line):
print(f"{i}: {line}")
print("\n--- Parser constructor call sites ---")
for path in Path(".").rglob("*.java"):
text = path.read_text(errors="replace")
for i, line in enumerate(text.splitlines(), 1):
if re.search(r"\bnew\s+Parser\s*\(", line):
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Annotate the nullable Parser constructor parameter.
@NullMarked makes the unannotated String fileName non-null in the JSpecify contract. The constructor Javadoc permits null, and init maps null to DEFAULT_FILENAME. Add @Nullable to the parameter.
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In `@testng-core/src/main/java/org/testng/xml/internal/package-info.java` around
lines 2 - 3, Annotate the nullable String fileName parameter in the Parser
constructor with `@Nullable`, while retaining the existing
null-to-DEFAULT_FILENAME behavior in init and the surrounding `@NullMarked`
package contract.
org.testng.internal.thread.graph lives only in testng-core. The check reports once, and it is not an annotation that answers it. PhoneyWorker.getTasks returns null, which org.testng.thread having just been marked makes a violation of IWorker. Weakening the interface for it would be backwards: the real workers all return a list, and GraphOrchestrator.setStatus iterates the result without a guard. A PhoneyWorker is not one of those. It is built in one place, filed straight into GraphOrchestrator's private mapping, and the only two reads of that map ask it for a thread id. getTasks is unreachable on it, so it returns List.of(). That is a different value on a path nobody walks, the same trade Input.Builder took: before, a caller that reached it would have got a NullPointerException out of setStatus; now it would get an empty list. There is no such caller. The @nonnull on compareTo goes at the same time. It came from jsr305, which no build file declares -- it reaches the compile classpath only through Guice's optional feature variant -- and @NullMarked now says the same thing for the whole package. It was the one javax.annotation usage among the eight packages marked here, and its neighbour TestNGFutureTask.compareTo never had one. GraphOrchestrator.comparator is the one annotation, and it is contract rather than compiler pressure -- stripping it still compiles, because SuiteTaskExecutor sits in unmarked code that NullAway reads optimistically. It passes null literally, for the suite graph where no ordering applies, and both run() and afterExecute() are written around it with `if (comparator != null)`. TestNGFutureTask needed nothing. The callback it feeds is a BiConsumer<IWorker<T>, Throwable> and the Throwable really is null on normal completion, but that nullness rides on a generic type argument, which NullAway does not check outside JSpecify generics mode. Annotating it would have recorded something the build does not enforce, and afterExecute does not test the argument either, so it was left alone. A throwaway `return null;` is rejected, so the package really is under the check rather than silently skipped. No behaviour changes on any reachable path.
org.testng.internal.invokers.objects lives only in testng-core and holds one class, GuiceContext, which copies four values off an XmlSuite and an IConfiguration so the suite-level Guice setup survives the XML model. The check demands nothing, and that on its own proves nothing: all four sources -- XmlSuite.getParentModule, getGuiceStage, getName and IConfiguration.getInjectorFactory -- sit in packages that are not marked yet, and NullAway reads unmarked code optimistically. So they were read instead of trusted. m_parentModule and m_guiceStage are initialised to "" on XmlSuite and no caller passes null into their setters; nothing anywhere tests any of the four getters against null, on XmlSuite or on GuiceContext. Nothing to record, so nothing is recorded. The day org.testng.xml is marked, whatever it settles on for those getters will report here if it disagrees. That is the point of doing this one package at a time. A throwaway `return null;` is rejected, so the package really is under the check rather than silently skipped. No behaviour changes -- an annotation on the package and nothing else.
org.testng.xml.internal lives only in testng-core. It also has a test half in the same package, which does not matter: NullAway is disabled for test compilation precisely so a package can be marked without its tests coming along. Seven of the eight annotations are demanded by the check -- drop any and the compile fails -- and none of them is new information, only information that was already written in a branch somewhere. Parser.constructURI returns null from its catch, and both callers already test for it: parse() falls back to `new File(m_fileName).toURI()`, and hasFileScheme treats it as a file path with a comment saying why. m_postProcessor is never initialised. All three constructors reported it, and parse() ends with `if (m_postProcessor != null)`. init's two parameters, because all three constructors call it with a null literal in one slot or the other -- that is how the three shapes of Parser are spelled. m_inputStream, which init assigns from that same nullable slot and parse() reads as `m_inputStream != null ? m_inputStream : new FileInputStream(...)`. TestNamesMatcher.cloneIfSuiteContainTestsWithNamesMatchingAny returns null when no test in the suite matched, and addIfNotNull's parameter, which is the only thing that call feeds and which is named after the test it performs. The eighth is contract: Parser(String) has always documented its argument as "the filename corresponding to the inputStream or null if unknown", and init still honours that by falling back to DEFAULT_FILENAME. Left bare it would have published @nonnull to callers over a javadoc that promises the opposite. m_fileName itself stays @nonnull, because init resolves it before anyone can read it. That made `if (m_fileName != null)` in parse() dead, so it goes and its body unindents; keeping it would have left the file asserting an invariant in the field declaration and coding against it twenty lines later. Its javadoc claimed the same falsehood, plus a "TODO CQ This member is never used" that parse() has long since disproved, and now says what init actually does. Only one restructure was on the table and it turned out not to be needed: NullAway recognises init as an initializer method called from every constructor, so m_fileName and m_inputStream are traced through it and there was no reason to collapse the constructors into a chain. XmlSuiteUtils needed nothing. A throwaway `return null;` in it is rejected, so the package really is under the check rather than silently skipped. No behaviour changes -- annotations, one dead guard, one corrected comment.
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The second split package: ThreadTimeoutException in testng-core-api, Async, TestNGThreadFactory, ThreadExecutionException and ThreadUtil in testng-core. The package-info goes in testng-core-api, which testng-core depends on, and the same two-module control as the previous commit confirms it: a throwaway null-returning method fails in ThreadTimeoutException and, separately, in ThreadUtil.java:100. Note that org.testng.internal.thread.graph was already marked by #3374 while its parent was not. @NullMarked does not descend into sub-packages, so the two are independent; the graph half being green said nothing about this one. The check reported two errors, both in ThreadTimeoutException, and both the same shape: a constructor delegating with a literal null for the cause, at this(msg, null) and this(tm, timeout, null). Passing null to a non-null parameter of the same marked package is the one thing NullAway can see without help. Both are answered by @nullable Throwable cause on the two constructors that take one. That is (E) for the delegation and (C) as well: MethodInvocationHelper wraps a timeout with new ThreadTimeoutException(tm, realTimeOut, e) where e is ex.getCause(), genuinely null when the exception has no cause. Restructuring was the other option and was rejected. Rewriting this(msg, null) as super(msg) removes the error for one token, but Throwable(String) leaves the cause uninitialised whereas Throwable(String, null) sets it to null for good -- the difference between initCause working and throwing IllegalStateException. Nothing in the repository calls initCause on this type, so it would not break anything today, but it is not the same object, and a restructuring is only preferable to an annotation when it is free. ThreadTimeoutException(Throwable) has no caller anywhere, main or test. It stays: the class is public API in testng-core-api and deleting a constructor is not a refactoring. The four files in testng-core need nothing. ThreadUtil logs a Throwable's message through Logger.error, which org.testng.log4testng already declares as @nullable Object, so the one cross-package call into already-marked code type-checks as it stands.
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The third split package, and the first where the two halves are not the same size: InstanceCreator in testng-core-api, eight files in testng-core. The package-info goes in testng-core-api, and the per-module control confirms the mark reaches both -- a throwaway null-returning method fails in InstanceCreator and, separately, in Dispenser.java:22. Its sub-package objects.pojo was already marked by #3374; that says nothing about this one, and the errors below are the proof. The check reported twenty-one errors, and three more surfaced as the annotations propagated. Seventeen @nullable answer them, and every one is (E): each was added against a named error at that exact line, and the count above is what the package reports with none of them. There is no (C) here at all -- unlike org.testng.util, this package produces its own nulls rather than accepting other people's. Almost all of them are one shape: a method that returns null and a caller that tests for it. IObjectDispenser.dispense and both implementations, because ClassImpl and Parameters both write `if (instance != null)` around the result. GuiceHelper.getInjector in all three overloads, getParentModule and getParentModuleClass. ObjectFactoryImpl.tryOtherConstructor, which returns null for an inner class, and newInstance above it. SimpleObjectDispenser.createInstance and the two helpers below it. Two are different. GuiceHelper.context is assigned null outright by the GuiceContext constructor -- the helper built for a suite has no test context. That null then travels: getParentModule hands it to InstanceCreator.newInstance as a constructor argument, so the varargs there becomes @nullable Object..., which is the truth about reflective construction anyway. The sibling overloads are left bare: nothing reaches them with a null. Three Objects.requireNonNull record invariants the compiler cannot see, rather than widening a signature to fit them: - BasicAttributes lets both the IClass and the raw Class be null, but no construction site leaves both out -- ClassImpl is the only one that omits the raw class, and it passes itself. One site in each dispenser selects between the two and now says so. - GuiceBasedObjectDispenser dereferences the suite context when there is no test context. That invariant does not hold: a @Guice-annotated listener registered through setListenerClasses or -listener arrives with neither context and throws NullPointerException. Reported as #3377 and left to be fixed there -- requireNonNull keeps the failure an NPE at the same point instead of moving it. Two restructurings, both behaviour-preserving: - GuiceBasedObjectDispenser.dispenser was an uninitialised field with a setter. Dispenser is its only construction site and called setNextDispenser on the very next line, so the successor becomes a constructor argument. setNextDispenser stays on the interface and keeps working; only the class, which is package-private, gains a constructor. - The two consecutive `if (ctx == null)` blocks in dispenseObject are merged. Nothing ran between them, so the order of effects is unchanged, and the suite context is now dereferenced through a single local. One consequence worth recording rather than discovering later. ObjectFactoryImpl.newInstance is now @nullable, and it overrides ITestObjectFactory.newInstance in the still-unmarked org.testng. Nothing forces the interface today, but its default body returns InstanceCreator.newInstance, which this commit pins as non-null -- so when org.testng is marked the interface will read as @nonnull and this override will not compile. The resolution will be to widen ITestObjectFactory.newInstance, a published contract change on an interface users implement. That decision is effectively taken here; it should be visible now rather than arrive as an error later. Left alone on purpose: GuiceBackedInjectorFactory already carries javax.annotation.@nullable on its parent parameter, which NullAway reads. Swapping it for the JSpecify one would leave it disagreeing with IInjectorFactory, the method it overrides, which lives in the still-unmarked org.testng. The pair should move together. Also left alone: both dispensers test attributes.getBasicAttributes() for null. CreationAttributes declares it non-null in an already-marked class and all seven construction sites pass a fresh BasicAttributes, so neither branch can be reached. The check does not object to a redundant test, and the two branches disagree about what to do -- one delegates, the other throws -- so removing them is a decision about behaviour, not a refactoring. Recorded in #3377 with the invariant above.
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The second split package: ThreadTimeoutException in testng-core-api, Async, TestNGThreadFactory, ThreadExecutionException and ThreadUtil in testng-core. The package-info goes in testng-core-api, which testng-core depends on, and the same two-module control as the previous commit confirms it: a throwaway null-returning method fails in ThreadTimeoutException and, separately, in ThreadUtil.java:100. Note that org.testng.internal.thread.graph was already marked by #3374 while its parent was not. @NullMarked does not descend into sub-packages, so the two are independent; the graph half being green said nothing about this one. The check reported two errors, both in ThreadTimeoutException, and both the same shape: a constructor delegating with a literal null for the cause, at this(msg, null) and this(tm, timeout, null). Passing null to a non-null parameter of the same marked package is the one thing NullAway can see without help. Both are answered by @nullable Throwable cause on the two constructors that take one. That is (E) for the delegation and (C) as well: MethodInvocationHelper wraps a timeout with new ThreadTimeoutException(tm, realTimeOut, e) where e is ex.getCause(), genuinely null when the exception has no cause. Restructuring was the other option and was rejected. Rewriting this(msg, null) as super(msg) removes the error for one token, but Throwable(String) leaves the cause uninitialised whereas Throwable(String, null) sets it to null for good -- the difference between initCause working and throwing IllegalStateException. Nothing in the repository calls initCause on this type, so it would not break anything today, but it is not the same object, and a restructuring is only preferable to an annotation when it is free. ThreadTimeoutException(Throwable) has no caller anywhere, main or test. It stays: the class is public API in testng-core-api and deleting a constructor is not a refactoring. The four files in testng-core need nothing. ThreadUtil logs a Throwable's message through Logger.error, which org.testng.log4testng already declares as @nullable Object, so the one cross-package call into already-marked code type-checks as it stands.
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The third split package, and the first where the two halves are not the same size: InstanceCreator in testng-core-api, eight files in testng-core. The package-info goes in testng-core-api, and the per-module control confirms the mark reaches both -- a throwaway null-returning method fails in InstanceCreator and, separately, in Dispenser.java:22. Its sub-package objects.pojo was already marked by #3374; that says nothing about this one, and the errors below are the proof. The check reported twenty-one errors, and three more surfaced as the annotations propagated. Seventeen @nullable answer them, and every one is (E): each was added against a named error at that exact line, and the count above is what the package reports with none of them. There is no (C) here at all -- unlike org.testng.util, this package produces its own nulls rather than accepting other people's. Almost all of them are one shape: a method that returns null and a caller that tests for it. IObjectDispenser.dispense and both implementations, because ClassImpl and Parameters both write `if (instance != null)` around the result. GuiceHelper.getInjector in all three overloads, getParentModule and getParentModuleClass. ObjectFactoryImpl.tryOtherConstructor, which returns null for an inner class, and newInstance above it. SimpleObjectDispenser.createInstance and the two helpers below it. Two are different. GuiceHelper.context is assigned null outright by the GuiceContext constructor -- the helper built for a suite has no test context. That null then travels: getParentModule hands it to InstanceCreator.newInstance as a constructor argument, so the varargs there becomes @nullable Object..., which is the truth about reflective construction anyway. The sibling overloads are left bare: nothing reaches them with a null. Three Objects.requireNonNull record invariants the compiler cannot see, rather than widening a signature to fit them: - BasicAttributes lets both the IClass and the raw Class be null, but no construction site leaves both out -- ClassImpl is the only one that omits the raw class, and it passes itself. One site in each dispenser selects between the two and now says so. - GuiceBasedObjectDispenser dereferences the suite context when there is no test context. That invariant does not hold: a @Guice-annotated listener registered through setListenerClasses or -listener arrives with neither context and throws NullPointerException. Reported as #3377 and left to be fixed there -- requireNonNull keeps the failure an NPE at the same point instead of moving it. Two restructurings, both behaviour-preserving: - GuiceBasedObjectDispenser.dispenser was an uninitialised field with a setter. Dispenser is its only construction site and called setNextDispenser on the very next line, so the successor becomes a constructor argument. setNextDispenser stays on the interface and keeps working; only the class, which is package-private, gains a constructor. - The two consecutive `if (ctx == null)` blocks in dispenseObject are merged. Nothing ran between them, so the order of effects is unchanged, and the suite context is now dereferenced through a single local. One consequence worth recording rather than discovering later. ObjectFactoryImpl.newInstance is now @nullable, and it overrides ITestObjectFactory.newInstance in the still-unmarked org.testng. Nothing forces the interface today, but its default body returns InstanceCreator.newInstance, which this commit pins as non-null -- so when org.testng is marked the interface will read as @nonnull and this override will not compile. The resolution will be to widen ITestObjectFactory.newInstance, a published contract change on an interface users implement. That decision is effectively taken here; it should be visible now rather than arrive as an error later. Left alone on purpose: GuiceBackedInjectorFactory already carries javax.annotation.@nullable on its parent parameter, which NullAway reads. Swapping it for the JSpecify one would leave it disagreeing with IInjectorFactory, the method it overrides, which lives in the still-unmarked org.testng. The pair should move together. Also left alone: both dispensers test attributes.getBasicAttributes() for null. CreationAttributes declares it non-null in an already-marked class and all seven construction sites pass a fresh BasicAttributes, so neither branch can be reached. The check does not object to a redundant test, and the two branches disagree about what to do -- one delegates, the other throws -- so removing them is a decision about behaviour, not a refactoring. Recorded in #3377 with the invariant above.
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The last package whose minority half is a single file: thirty files in testng-core and IInvocationStatus in testng-runner-api. Everything left after it changes a variable -- three or four modules, a multi-file minority, or eighty files -- so this closes out the technique rather than opening a new one. org.testng.internal.invokers.objects was marked in #3374 while its parent was not; @NullMarked does not descend, so that green child said nothing about this package. The package-info goes in testng-runner-api, which testng-core depends on, and the per-module control confirms both halves are covered: a throwaway null-returning method is clean in both modules before the file and fails after it, at IInvocationStatus.java:13 and, separately, at BaseInvoker.java:24. The minority half then needed no annotation of its own -- IInvocationStatus is two primitive accessors. Forty-nine errors. 107 @nullable, 35 Objects.requireNonNull and five restructurings answer them. The shape of the package is one three-level argument hierarchy -- Arguments, MethodArguments, and the three leaf types built by builders -- and it decides everything else. ConfigMethodArguments genuinely carries nulls: TestRunner and SuiteRunner build it for @BeforeTest and @BeforeSuite without a test method, an instance or a class, which is why ConfigInvoker tests getTestMethodResult() for null and defaults getTestClass() inside its loop. So instance and tm are @nullable on the shared base. Doing only that took the count from 49 to 87, because TestMethodArguments and GroupConfigMethodArguments always carry both, and every consumer of those two was suddenly asked to handle a null that cannot reach it. Narrowing the contract back where it is really narrower -- non-null overrides of getTestMethod() and getInstance() on those two leaves -- returns it to 49 and keeps the truth in one place instead of spreading requireNonNull across forty call sites. The builders are the other half. Their staging fields are @nullable because a builder starts empty, which is a fact about the builder and not about the object it builds; build() then either passes the value straight through, when callers really do omit it, or records the invariant with requireNonNull when every caller sets it. AbstractParallelWorker.Arguments was the one builder that mutated the object it was building, so it could not express that at all; it now takes its seven values through a constructor and its fields are final. ThreadExecutionException, left unannotated by #3380 because its body tests nothing, is settled at the call site rather than on the parameter. Two errors come out of the same invariant, and only one of them is about the constructor: TestInvoker dereferences tee.getCause() unguarded, which is the JDK model, not the field, so annotating the parameter would have silenced one and left the other. It would also have published a nullity contract the sole reader cannot honour -- there is exactly one construction site and one consumer, and the consumer reads the cause straight back out. FutureTask never completes exceptionally without a cause, so requireNonNull at both ends says so and keeps the change inside this package. The two contracts #3380 asserted both hold: neither MethodInvocationHelper:375 nor ParameterHandler:87 reports anything. Two AtomicReference<Boolean> flags become AtomicBoolean, which removes the unboxing rather than annotating around it. ClassBasedParallelWorker and TestInvoker.invokeMethod each bind a value once into a local instead of re-reading a getter that is not a stable expression. Every annotation is classified by deletion and recompilation, one at a time: 102 bring back a named error. Nine more did not and are gone -- seven builder setters whose callers never pass null, and two guards over parameters no real caller leaves empty, which are residue and stay as they are. The five that remain without a demand are the IConfigInvoker parameters: NullAway does not check an implementation widening an interface parameter, but ConfigInvoker's matching five are all demanded and it passes a literal null to its own overload, so dropping them would leave the interface contradicting its only implementation.
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The last package whose minority half is a single file: thirty files in testng-core and IInvocationStatus in testng-runner-api. Everything left after it changes a variable -- three or four modules, a multi-file minority, or eighty files -- so this closes out the technique rather than opening a new one. org.testng.internal.invokers.objects was marked in #3374 while its parent was not; @NullMarked does not descend, so that green child said nothing about this package. The package-info goes in testng-runner-api, which testng-core depends on, and the per-module control confirms both halves are covered: a throwaway null-returning method is clean in both modules before the file and fails after it, at IInvocationStatus.java:13 and, separately, at BaseInvoker.java:24. The minority half then needed no annotation of its own -- IInvocationStatus is two primitive accessors. Forty-nine errors. 107 @nullable, 35 Objects.requireNonNull and five restructurings answer them. The shape of the package is one three-level argument hierarchy -- Arguments, MethodArguments, and the three leaf types built by builders -- and it decides everything else. ConfigMethodArguments genuinely carries nulls: TestRunner and SuiteRunner build it for @BeforeTest and @BeforeSuite without a test method, an instance or a class, which is why ConfigInvoker tests getTestMethodResult() for null and defaults getTestClass() inside its loop. So instance and tm are @nullable on the shared base. Doing only that took the count from 49 to 87, because TestMethodArguments and GroupConfigMethodArguments always carry both, and every consumer of those two was suddenly asked to handle a null that cannot reach it. Narrowing the contract back where it is really narrower -- non-null overrides of getTestMethod() and getInstance() on those two leaves -- returns it to 49 and keeps the truth in one place instead of spreading requireNonNull across forty call sites. The builders are the other half. Their staging fields are @nullable because a builder starts empty, which is a fact about the builder and not about the object it builds; build() then either passes the value straight through, when callers really do omit it, or records the invariant with requireNonNull when every caller sets it. AbstractParallelWorker.Arguments was the one builder that mutated the object it was building, so it could not express that at all; it now takes its seven values through a constructor and its fields are final. ThreadExecutionException, left unannotated by #3380 because its body tests nothing, is settled at the call site rather than on the parameter. Two errors come out of the same invariant, and only one of them is about the constructor: TestInvoker dereferences tee.getCause() unguarded, which is the JDK model, not the field, so annotating the parameter would have silenced one and left the other. It would also have published a nullity contract the sole reader cannot honour -- there is exactly one construction site and one consumer, and the consumer reads the cause straight back out. FutureTask never completes exceptionally without a cause, so requireNonNull at both ends says so and keeps the change inside this package. The two contracts #3380 asserted both hold: neither MethodInvocationHelper:375 nor ParameterHandler:87 reports anything. Two AtomicReference<Boolean> flags become AtomicBoolean, which removes the unboxing rather than annotating around it. ClassBasedParallelWorker and TestInvoker.invokeMethod each bind a value once into a local instead of re-reading a getter that is not a stable expression. Every annotation is classified by deletion and recompilation, one at a time: 102 bring back a named error. Nine more did not and are gone -- seven builder setters whose callers never pass null, and two guards over parameters no real caller leaves empty, which are residue and stay as they are. The five that remain without a demand are the IConfigInvoker parameters: NullAway does not check an implementation widening an interface parameter, but ConfigInvoker's matching five are all demanded and it passes a literal null to its own overload, so dropping them would leave the interface contradicting its only implementation.
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The second split package: ThreadTimeoutException in testng-core-api, Async, TestNGThreadFactory, ThreadExecutionException and ThreadUtil in testng-core. The package-info goes in testng-core-api, which testng-core depends on, and the same two-module control as the previous commit confirms it: a throwaway null-returning method fails in ThreadTimeoutException and, separately, in ThreadUtil.java:100. Note that org.testng.internal.thread.graph was already marked by #3374 while its parent was not. @NullMarked does not descend into sub-packages, so the two are independent; the graph half being green said nothing about this one. The check reported two errors, both in ThreadTimeoutException, and both the same shape: a constructor delegating with a literal null for the cause, at this(msg, null) and this(tm, timeout, null). Passing null to a non-null parameter of the same marked package is the one thing NullAway can see without help. Both are answered by @nullable Throwable cause on the two constructors that take one. That is (E) for the delegation and (C) as well: MethodInvocationHelper wraps a timeout with new ThreadTimeoutException(tm, realTimeOut, e) where e is ex.getCause(), genuinely null when the exception has no cause. Restructuring was the other option and was rejected. Rewriting this(msg, null) as super(msg) removes the error for one token, but Throwable(String) leaves the cause uninitialised whereas Throwable(String, null) sets it to null for good -- the difference between initCause working and throwing IllegalStateException. Nothing in the repository calls initCause on this type, so it would not break anything today, but it is not the same object, and a restructuring is only preferable to an annotation when it is free. ThreadTimeoutException(Throwable) has no caller anywhere, main or test. It stays: the class is public API in testng-core-api and deleting a constructor is not a refactoring. The four files in testng-core need nothing. ThreadUtil logs a Throwable's message through Logger.error, which org.testng.log4testng already declares as @nullable Object, so the one cross-package call into already-marked code type-checks as it stands.
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The third split package, and the first where the two halves are not the same size: InstanceCreator in testng-core-api, eight files in testng-core. The package-info goes in testng-core-api, and the per-module control confirms the mark reaches both -- a throwaway null-returning method fails in InstanceCreator and, separately, in Dispenser.java:22. Its sub-package objects.pojo was already marked by #3374; that says nothing about this one, and the errors below are the proof. The check reported twenty-one errors, and three more surfaced as the annotations propagated. Seventeen @nullable answer them, and every one is (E): each was added against a named error at that exact line, and the count above is what the package reports with none of them. There is no (C) here at all -- unlike org.testng.util, this package produces its own nulls rather than accepting other people's. Almost all of them are one shape: a method that returns null and a caller that tests for it. IObjectDispenser.dispense and both implementations, because ClassImpl and Parameters both write `if (instance != null)` around the result. GuiceHelper.getInjector in all three overloads, getParentModule and getParentModuleClass. ObjectFactoryImpl.tryOtherConstructor, which returns null for an inner class, and newInstance above it. SimpleObjectDispenser.createInstance and the two helpers below it. Two are different. GuiceHelper.context is assigned null outright by the GuiceContext constructor -- the helper built for a suite has no test context. That null then travels: getParentModule hands it to InstanceCreator.newInstance as a constructor argument, so the varargs there becomes @nullable Object..., which is the truth about reflective construction anyway. The sibling overloads are left bare: nothing reaches them with a null. Three Objects.requireNonNull record invariants the compiler cannot see, rather than widening a signature to fit them: - BasicAttributes lets both the IClass and the raw Class be null, but no construction site leaves both out -- ClassImpl is the only one that omits the raw class, and it passes itself. One site in each dispenser selects between the two and now says so. - GuiceBasedObjectDispenser dereferences the suite context when there is no test context. That invariant does not hold: a @Guice-annotated listener registered through setListenerClasses or -listener arrives with neither context and throws NullPointerException. Reported as #3377 and left to be fixed there -- requireNonNull keeps the failure an NPE at the same point instead of moving it. Two restructurings, both behaviour-preserving: - GuiceBasedObjectDispenser.dispenser was an uninitialised field with a setter. Dispenser is its only construction site and called setNextDispenser on the very next line, so the successor becomes a constructor argument. setNextDispenser stays on the interface and keeps working; only the class, which is package-private, gains a constructor. - The two consecutive `if (ctx == null)` blocks in dispenseObject are merged. Nothing ran between them, so the order of effects is unchanged, and the suite context is now dereferenced through a single local. One consequence worth recording rather than discovering later. ObjectFactoryImpl.newInstance is now @nullable, and it overrides ITestObjectFactory.newInstance in the still-unmarked org.testng. Nothing forces the interface today, but its default body returns InstanceCreator.newInstance, which this commit pins as non-null -- so when org.testng is marked the interface will read as @nonnull and this override will not compile. The resolution will be to widen ITestObjectFactory.newInstance, a published contract change on an interface users implement. That decision is effectively taken here; it should be visible now rather than arrive as an error later. Left alone on purpose: GuiceBackedInjectorFactory already carries javax.annotation.@nullable on its parent parameter, which NullAway reads. Swapping it for the JSpecify one would leave it disagreeing with IInjectorFactory, the method it overrides, which lives in the still-unmarked org.testng. The pair should move together. Also left alone: both dispensers test attributes.getBasicAttributes() for null. CreationAttributes declares it non-null in an already-marked class and all seven construction sites pass a fresh BasicAttributes, so neither branch can be reached. The check does not object to a redundant test, and the two branches disagree about what to do -- one delegates, the other throws -- so removing them is a decision about behaviour, not a refactoring. Recorded in #3377 with the invariant above.
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The last package whose minority half is a single file: thirty files in testng-core and IInvocationStatus in testng-runner-api. Everything left after it changes a variable -- three or four modules, a multi-file minority, or eighty files -- so this closes out the technique rather than opening a new one. org.testng.internal.invokers.objects was marked in #3374 while its parent was not; @NullMarked does not descend, so that green child said nothing about this package. The package-info goes in testng-runner-api, which testng-core depends on, and the per-module control confirms both halves are covered: a throwaway null-returning method is clean in both modules before the file and fails after it, at IInvocationStatus.java:13 and, separately, at BaseInvoker.java:24. The minority half then needed no annotation of its own -- IInvocationStatus is two primitive accessors. Forty-nine errors. 107 @nullable, 35 Objects.requireNonNull and five restructurings answer them. The shape of the package is one three-level argument hierarchy -- Arguments, MethodArguments, and the three leaf types built by builders -- and it decides everything else. ConfigMethodArguments genuinely carries nulls: TestRunner and SuiteRunner build it for @BeforeTest and @BeforeSuite without a test method, an instance or a class, which is why ConfigInvoker tests getTestMethodResult() for null and defaults getTestClass() inside its loop. So instance and tm are @nullable on the shared base. Doing only that took the count from 49 to 87, because TestMethodArguments and GroupConfigMethodArguments always carry both, and every consumer of those two was suddenly asked to handle a null that cannot reach it. Narrowing the contract back where it is really narrower -- non-null overrides of getTestMethod() and getInstance() on those two leaves -- returns it to 49 and keeps the truth in one place instead of spreading requireNonNull across forty call sites. The builders are the other half. Their staging fields are @nullable because a builder starts empty, which is a fact about the builder and not about the object it builds; build() then either passes the value straight through, when callers really do omit it, or records the invariant with requireNonNull when every caller sets it. AbstractParallelWorker.Arguments was the one builder that mutated the object it was building, so it could not express that at all; it now takes its seven values through a constructor and its fields are final. ThreadExecutionException, left unannotated by #3380 because its body tests nothing, is settled at the call site rather than on the parameter. Two errors come out of the same invariant, and only one of them is about the constructor: TestInvoker dereferences tee.getCause() unguarded, which is the JDK model, not the field, so annotating the parameter would have silenced one and left the other. It would also have published a nullity contract the sole reader cannot honour -- there is exactly one construction site and one consumer, and the consumer reads the cause straight back out. FutureTask never completes exceptionally without a cause, so requireNonNull at both ends says so and keeps the change inside this package. The two contracts #3380 asserted both hold: neither MethodInvocationHelper:375 nor ParameterHandler:87 reports anything. Two AtomicReference<Boolean> flags become AtomicBoolean, which removes the unboxing rather than annotating around it. ClassBasedParallelWorker and TestInvoker.invokeMethod each bind a value once into a local instead of re-reading a getter that is not a stable expression. Every annotation is classified by deletion and recompilation, one at a time: 102 bring back a named error. Nine more did not and are gone -- seven builder setters whose callers never pass null, and two guards over parameters no real caller leaves empty, which are residue and stay as they are. The five that remain without a demand are the IConfigInvoker parameters: NullAway does not check an implementation widening an interface parameter, but ConfigInvoker's matching five are all demanded and it passes a literal null to its own overload, so dropping them would leave the interface contradicting its only implementation.
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The last package whose minority half is a single file: thirty files in testng-core and IInvocationStatus in testng-runner-api. Everything left after it changes a variable -- three or four modules, a multi-file minority, or eighty files -- so this closes out the technique rather than opening a new one. org.testng.internal.invokers.objects was marked in #3374 while its parent was not; @NullMarked does not descend, so that green child said nothing about this package. The package-info goes in testng-runner-api, which testng-core depends on, and the per-module control confirms both halves are covered: a throwaway null-returning method is clean in both modules before the file and fails after it, at IInvocationStatus.java:13 and, separately, at BaseInvoker.java:24. The minority half then needed no annotation of its own -- IInvocationStatus is two primitive accessors. Forty-nine errors. 107 @nullable, 35 Objects.requireNonNull and five restructurings answer them. The shape of the package is one three-level argument hierarchy -- Arguments, MethodArguments, and the three leaf types built by builders -- and it decides everything else. ConfigMethodArguments genuinely carries nulls: TestRunner and SuiteRunner build it for @BeforeTest and @BeforeSuite without a test method, an instance or a class, which is why ConfigInvoker tests getTestMethodResult() for null and defaults getTestClass() inside its loop. So instance and tm are @nullable on the shared base. Doing only that took the count from 49 to 87, because TestMethodArguments and GroupConfigMethodArguments always carry both, and every consumer of those two was suddenly asked to handle a null that cannot reach it. Narrowing the contract back where it is really narrower -- non-null overrides of getTestMethod() and getInstance() on those two leaves -- returns it to 49 and keeps the truth in one place instead of spreading requireNonNull across forty call sites. The builders are the other half. Their staging fields are @nullable because a builder starts empty, which is a fact about the builder and not about the object it builds; build() then either passes the value straight through, when callers really do omit it, or records the invariant with requireNonNull when every caller sets it. AbstractParallelWorker.Arguments was the one builder that mutated the object it was building, so it could not express that at all; it now takes its seven values through a constructor and its fields are final. ThreadExecutionException, left unannotated by #3380 because its body tests nothing, is settled at the call site rather than on the parameter. Two errors come out of the same invariant, and only one of them is about the constructor: TestInvoker dereferences tee.getCause() unguarded, which is the JDK model, not the field, so annotating the parameter would have silenced one and left the other. It would also have published a nullity contract the sole reader cannot honour -- there is exactly one construction site and one consumer, and the consumer reads the cause straight back out. FutureTask never completes exceptionally without a cause, so requireNonNull at both ends says so and keeps the change inside this package. The two contracts #3380 asserted both hold: neither MethodInvocationHelper:375 nor ParameterHandler:87 reports anything. Two AtomicReference<Boolean> flags become AtomicBoolean, which removes the unboxing rather than annotating around it. ClassBasedParallelWorker and TestInvoker.invokeMethod each bind a value once into a local instead of re-reading a getter that is not a stable expression. Every annotation is classified by deletion and recompilation, one at a time: 102 bring back a named error. Nine more did not and are gone -- seven builder setters whose callers never pass null, and two guards over parameters no real caller leaves empty, which are residue and stay as they are. The five that remain without a demand are the IConfigInvoker parameters: NullAway does not check an implementation widening an interface parameter, but ConfigInvoker's matching five are all demanded and it passes a literal null to its own overload, so dropping them would leave the interface contradicting its only implementation.
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Fourth step of the JSpecify/NullAway stack, after #3370. That one merged while this was being written, so this targets
masterdirectly and the stack is flat again.Takes the eight packages of
testng-corethat live in exactly one module and were still unmarked — 23mainfiles. A package split across two modules cannot be marked half at a time: the other module'spackage-info.classlands on the compile classpath and NullAway would start checking code this PR never looked at. All eight were checked to be single-module first.org.testng.reporters.jqis deliberately left out; it is the next PR.One commit per package, each green on its own. Two of them changed no code at all, and say so.
What the check demanded
:testng-core:compileJavareported 17 errors across the eight packages once thepackage-info.javafiles were in. Six were answered by restructuring rather than by an annotation, the rest by 13@Nullable.org.testng.logorg.testng.threadorg.testng.reporters.utilorg.testng.internal.collectionsorg.testng.internal.objects.pojoorg.testng.internal.thread.graphorg.testng.internal.invokers.objectsorg.testng.xml.internal(E) = the compile fails without it. (C) = the compile passes without it, and it is there because a real caller produces null and a real consumer tests for it.
Every row was measured, not argued: each cluster was stripped back to bare and recompiled, so the split above is what the compiler actually says rather than what the code looks like. That mattered more than usual here — these packages call heavily into
org.testng.internal, which is not marked, and NullAway reads unmarked code optimistically. Silence from the build proves nothing about those call sites, so the 18 contract annotations were each traced to a null-producing caller and a null-testing consumer by hand.The two restructures
DetailedAttributesdeclared five reference fields with no initialiser and no constructor, so NullAway refused all five at once. It is built in exactly one place —ClassImpl.newDetailedAttributes, which calls all six setters back to back and returns — and nothing else in the repository names the type. It becomes a constructor taking the six values, final fields, no setters. Five errors gone, no annotation, and the caller shrinks to thenewit was spelling out. This is the only file touched outside the eight packages.PhoneyWorker.getTasksreturnednull, which became a violation ofIWorkerthe momentorg.testng.threadwas marked one commit earlier. Weakening the interface would have been backwards: the real workers all return a list andGraphOrchestrator.setStatusiterates the result unguarded. APhoneyWorkeris filed straight into a private map whose only two reads callgetCurrentThreadIdandgetThreadIdToRunOn, sogetTasksis unreachable on it and it now returnsList.of(). Same tradeInput.Buildertook in #3370: a different value on a path with no caller.Ordering rule this PR follows
Marking is package by package, and the two kinds of package need opposite rules — worth stating because this PR contains one of each:
org.testng.threadis marked one commit beforeorg.testng.internal.thread.graph, soIWorker.getTasksbecomes@NonNulland the single implementor that violated it is fixed in the very next commit. EveryIWorkerimplementation in the repo was checked first;PhoneyWorkerwas the only one returning null.org.testng.internal.objects.pojois marked here, but its only consumer,org.testng.internal.objects, is not — so the dereferences thatCreationAttributes' three@Nullablefields imply are deferred to whoever marks that package next. They are enumerated in the follow-up section below rather than left to be rediscovered mid-migration.What was deliberately left bare
Pair.first/second, despite thefirst == nulltests inhashCodeandequals. No construction site passes null — the closest,JDK15AnnotationFinder'snew Pair<>(inter.getAnnotation(a), annotationClass), sits inside a!= nullguard — and nothing readsfirst()/second()against null. Residue, not a contract.CreationAttributes.basic. Both dispensers testgetBasicAttributes() == null, but all six construction sites pass a realBasicAttributes, so those tests are dead.TestNGFutureTask's callbackThrowable, which really is null on normal completion — but that nullness rides on a generic type argument, which NullAway does not check outside JSpecify generics mode. Annotating it would have recorded something the build does not enforce.GuiceContext. All four of its sources are unmarked and read optimistically; reading them by hand showedm_parentModuleandm_guiceStagedefault to""and nothing tests any of the four against null.Verification
Each package was taken on its own:
package-info.javafirst, then the reported errors, then a throwawayreturn null;to confirm the package really was under the check and not silently skipped — all eight negative controls failed as they should../gradlew buildis green: 16152 tests intestng-core, 0 failed, no other module affected.autostyleApplyproduced no change.Not fixed here — worth separate issues
Two things surfaced while reading. Neither is touched, since this PR changes no behaviour.
GuiceBasedObjectDispenser.dispenseObjectdereferencessuiteCtxwithout a guard, whilegetSuiteContext()can be null. It is safe today only because of an invariant —ctx == nullimpliessuiteContext != null— that is written down nowhere and thatCreationAttributesdoes not enforce.CreationAttributes.getBasicAttributes()is tested against null by two dispensers although no construction site can produce it, so one of the two is wrong: either the tests are dead, or a constructor is missing a guard.BasicAttributes' two fields are resolved to a single class by three separate call sites that disagree on precedence:GuiceBasedObjectDispenser:39prefers theIClass, whileGuiceBasedObjectDispenser:65andSimpleObjectDispenser:54prefer the rawClass. Both fields are populated together atParameters:659and:818, so the divergence is reachable. A non-nullresolveClass()onBasicAttributeswould collapse the three copies, but choosing the precedence is a behaviour decision.Whoever marks
org.testng.internal.objectsnext will hit items 1 and 3 as NullAway errors atGuiceBasedObjectDispenser:48,:58,:66andSimpleObjectDispenser:56. The right move there is to resolve the modelling question, not to reach for fourrequireNonNullcalls.Summary by CodeRabbit
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null.Refactor