refactor: declare four cross-module packages null-marked - #3380
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org.testng.util is the first package of the stack that lives in two modules at once: Strings in testng-collections, RetryAnalyzerCount and TimeUtils in testng-core. The eight packages before it were each confined to one module, and after #3375 there is no such package left in the published modules. That changes what a package-info.java proves. On a single-module package it guarantees the whole package is checked; on a split one the direction of the dependency decides, because module A's package-info.class only reaches B's compile classpath when B depends on A. Put it on the wrong side and the other half compiles without being checked, with a green build and no error -- a false negative that looks exactly like a success. So the file goes in testng-collections, which testng-core depends on, and the control is run per module rather than per package: a throwaway private static Object nullAwayProbe() { return null; } in Strings and a second one in TimeUtils. Both compile clean before the package-info and both fail after it, Strings.java:68 and TimeUtils.java:60. The mark does travel down the classpath. The check then reported nothing at all, in either module. Two @nullable are added even so, both (C): - Strings.isNullOrEmpty. The body is Optional.ofNullable, and JarFileUtils really passes null: suitePath is declared null and only assigned inside the loop, so the "not found in the jar" path reaches the call with null. TestNGContentHandler.skipConsideringSystemId does the same with the systemId SAX hands it. - Strings.isNotNullAndNotEmpty, whose body is !isNullOrEmpty(string). Leaving it bare would have the pair contradict itself -- a method named for the null test refusing null while the one it delegates to accepts it. FactoryAnnotation initialises m_dataProvider to null and Parameters feeds getDataProvider() straight in. Neither is required: the package compiles clean without them, which is what makes them (C) rather than (E). Left bare on purpose: isBlankStringList tests its argument for null, but the only caller is TestNamesMatcher, whose field is already declared non-null in the marked org.testng.xml.internal, and both callers above it guard first. Residue, not a contract. The guard stays -- Strings is public in a published module. RetryAnalyzerCount needs nothing, and that is worth stating rather than reading off a table of zeroes: users extend it, so a @nullable there would publish a nullity contract that could never be withdrawn. Nothing forces one. Its only field has an inline initialiser, no method returns a reference type, and retry(ITestResult) overrides an unannotated supertype, which NullAway never widens. The package now records both of its parameters as non-null, which is what TestNG has always passed.
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.
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.
The last of the four, and the one with the most history: ReflectionHelper in testng-reflection-utils, ten files in testng-core. This is where #3361 came from -- a primitive with no entry in the widening table, so a Map.get returned null and was dereferenced. #3362 corrected the table; the package was never marked, so nothing has been stopping the next one. The package-info goes in testng-reflection-utils, and the per-module control confirms both halves are covered: a throwaway null-returning method fails in ReflectionHelper and, separately, in DirectMethodMatcher.java:46. Twelve errors, two in testng-reflection-utils and ten in testng-core. Eight @nullable, two Objects.requireNonNull and two restructurings answer them, and every @nullable is (E). The two that land on a public surface were checked by deleting them and recompiling; both errors come back, at AbstractMethodMatcher.java:19 and ReflectionRecipes.java:449. The exact spot that produced #3361 is now written down. isInstanceOf dereferences PRIMITIVE_MAPPING.get and ASSIGNABLE_MAPPING.get with no guard, and both are correct only because the static initialiser gives the two tables the same key set -- which is precisely what #3362 added. Objects.requireNonNull says so at the expression, so the reasoning is next to the code instead of in a comment two hundred lines up, and a table that loses a key fails the same way it does today rather than silently. Three fields hold a "not computed yet" state and are annotated rather than reworked: AbstractMethodMatcher.conforms (a tri-state Boolean, with getConforms following it), AbstractNodeMethodMatcher.conformingParameters and DataProviderMethodMatcher.matchingMatcher. Replacing the Boolean with a pair of primitives was the tempting alternative and was dropped: getConforms is protected on a public class, and removing it is an API change, not a refactoring -- the same reason ThreadTimeoutException kept its unused constructor two commits ago. getConformingArguments tested getConformingParameters() and then called it again two lines later. A getter is not a stable expression, so the second result was never refined; it is now bound to a local once. That is a plain readability fix that the check happened to insist on. MethodMatcherException.generateMessage built both a null name and a null array before handing them to the private overload. getConstructorParameters and getMethodParameters already answer an empty array for a null input, so hoisting the call out of the guard makes the array non-null for free and leaves only @nullable String name -- one annotation where the naive reading wanted three. The remaining one is the least comfortable and is called out rather than buried: MethodMatcherException(String message) becomes @nullable. ReflectionRecipes builds its diagnostic in two instanceof branches and throws with whatever they left, so the message really can be null. Throwable has always accepted one, so the signature is only recording what happens; that it can happen at all is a bug, and it is reported as #3378 rather than fixed here. The free-looking alternative was weighed and rejected: nativelyInject takes the injection target as Object, so its instanceof pair is not exhaustive and msg stays nullable. Narrowing that parameter to java.lang.reflect.Executable would make it exhaustive and remove the annotation -- but a null target, which Parameters really does pass, would then produce a generated message where it produces none today. That is a behaviour change, so it belongs to #3378. Three more findings from this package went into the same issue, the first of them a wrong entry in the very table #3362 repaired: char does not widen to short, so a data provider feeding a Character to a short parameter is accepted and then fails inside Method.invoke. Left bare on purpose, and worth listing because a reading of the sources predicts otherwise: Class.getComponentType and Class.getSuperclass are absent from NullAway 0.13.8's models, so neither ArrayEndingMethodMatcher nor ReflectionHelper is asked about them. Reassigning a parameter from getSuperclass() inside a loop is fine as well -- NullAway enforces declared nullness at boundaries, not on local reassignment. And the several methods that test an argument for null without any caller producing one -- getMethodParameters, getConstructorParameters, filter, canInject, isOrExtends -- force nothing. They are residue, not contracts, and the guards stay.
The JSpecify stack has been documented only in commit messages and pull request bodies, and the one thing that most needs writing down is the newest: nine of the packages marked so far lived in a single module, where a package-info.java is self-evidently enough. The ten that remain do not, and there the placement of that file decides whether the other half is checked at all. How the check is scoped is already commented next to the option that scopes it, in the Error Prone convention plugin, and the new section points there instead of repeating it -- this file was cut back to links once before for exactly that reason. The failure mode is the reason the rest belongs in the Verification section rather than in a design note. It produces no error and no warning; an unchecked package and a clean one look exactly alike from the build output, so the only way to tell them apart is to make the check fail on purpose, once per module the package spans. Also records that @NullMarked does not descend into sub-packages, which is not obvious from the layout: org.testng.internal.thread.graph was marked several commits before its parent.
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In `@testng-collections/src/main/java/org/testng/util/Strings.java`:
- Around line 15-19: Align nullable annotations with existing behavior: in
testng-collections/src/main/java/org/testng/util/Strings.java lines 15-19,
annotate the list parameter and its elements in Strings.isBlankStringList as
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Object[] parameters in matchArrayEnding, exactMatch, and lenientMatch as
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`@testng-core-api/src/main/java/org/testng/internal/objects/InstanceCreator.java`:
- Around line 40-42: Update the String and Class<T> overloads of
InstanceCreator.newInstance to annotate their varargs element types as nullable,
matching the constructor overload’s `@Nullable` Object... contract. Add coverage
verifying nullable arguments through the constructor, String, and Class<T>
overloads.
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`@testng-core-api/src/main/java/org/testng/internal/thread/ThreadTimeoutException.java`:
- Around line 15-17: Update the cause-only ThreadTimeoutException constructor to
align its cause parameter with Throwable(Throwable): annotate cause as
`@Nullable`, or explicitly reject null before delegation, while preserving the
existing constructor behavior.
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`@testng-core/src/main/java/org/testng/internal/objects/ObjectFactoryImpl.java`:
- Line 17: Align the nullability contract by marking
ITestObjectFactory.newInstance and instantiateUsingDefaultConstructor as
nullable, then validate the enclosing instance returned for nested-class
construction before passing it to the constructor. Preserve the existing
createInstance null-result check.
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`@testng-core/src/main/java/org/testng/internal/objects/SimpleObjectDispenser.java`:
- Around line 58-60: Update SimpleObjectDispenser to detect BasicAttributes with
both nullable fields unset before dereferencing basic.getTestClass(), and reject
it through the established TestNGException path. Preserve normal delegation to
objectFactory.newInstance for valid attributes, and align the handling with
GuiceBasedObjectDispenser.
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In JSpecify, the placement of the @Nullable annotation on array types distinguishes whether the array's elements or the array object itself can be null [1][2]. A helpful mnemonic is that the annotation applies to the type immediately following it [1][3]. The syntax is defined as follows: - @Nullable Object[]: The array elements can be null, but the array object itself cannot be null [1][4]. - Object @Nullable []: The array object itself can be null, but its elements cannot be null [1][4]. - @Nullable Object @Nullable []: Both the array object and its elements can be null [1][4]. When migrating from older standards (such as JSR 305), be aware that this syntax is strict regarding type-use annotations [5]. Code that previously used @Nullable Object[] to mean a nullable array must be updated to Object @Nullable [] to retain that meaning; otherwise, the interpretation will shift to an array of nullable objects [5][4]. This same logic applies to variadic parameters (varargs): - @Nullable String...: The individual elements of the array may be null [2][6]. - String @Nullable...: The array itself may be null [6].
Citations:
- 1: https://jspecify.dev/docs/user-guide/
- 2: https://jspecify.dev/docs/spec/
- 3: https://github.com/jspecify/jspecify/blob/main/docs/docs/user-guide.md
- 4: https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/reference/core/null-safety.html
- 5: https://jspecify.dev/docs/using/
- 6: https://jspecify.dev/docs/api/org/jspecify/annotations/Nullable.html
Align nullable parameters with the @NullMarked contracts.
Strings.isBlankStringListhandles a null list and null elements. Annotate both as nullable or remove this behavior.ReflectionRecipes.isInstanceOfhandles a nullobject. Mark it nullable. Mark elements in theObject[]parameters ofmatchArrayEnding,exactMatch, andlenientMatchas nullable.
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In `@testng-collections/src/main/java/org/testng/util/Strings.java` around lines
15 - 19, Align nullable annotations with existing behavior: in
testng-collections/src/main/java/org/testng/util/Strings.java lines 15-19,
annotate the list parameter and its elements in Strings.isBlankStringList as
nullable. In
testng-core/src/main/java/org/testng/internal/reflect/ReflectionRecipes.java
lines 91-96, mark the object parameter of isInstanceOf and elements of the
Object[] parameters in matchArrayEnding, exactMatch, and lenientMatch as
nullable.
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| public static <T> T newInstance(Constructor<T> constructor, @Nullable Object... parameters) { | ||
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JSpecify Nullable varargs @nullable Object... nullable elements array documentation
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In JSpecify, varargs are treated as array types, and nullability annotations are applied to specific type usages within those arrays, following standard Java type-use annotation rules [1][2]. Because JSpecify annotations are designed as type-use annotations (ElementType.TYPE_USE), you can independently annotate the components of the varargs array and the array itself [1][2][3]. To specify the nullability of a varargs parameter, use the following patterns: 1. Nullable elements, non-null array reference: Use @Nullable on the component type. void method(@Nullable Object... args) [1][2] 2. Non-null elements, nullable array reference: Use @Nullable between the component type and the varargs ellipsis. void method(Object @Nullable... args) [1][2][3] 3. Both nullable elements and nullable array reference: Combine both annotations. void method(@Nullable Object @Nullable... args) [1][2][3] When using @NullMarked in your scope, all unannotated types default to @NonNull [4]. In this context, @Nullable Object... would mean an array of nullable elements (where the array itself is non-null), while Object @Nullable... would mean a nullable array of non-null elements [5][6]. This precise control allows you to differentiate between a scenario where the array itself is null (e.g., passed as null by the caller) and where the array is present but contains null elements [1][5].
Citations:
- 1: https://jspecify.dev/docs/spec/
- 2: https://github.com/jspecify/jspecify/blob/main/docs/docs/spec.md
- 3: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32327134/where-does-a-nullable-annotation-refer-to-in-case-of-a-varargs-parameter
- 4: https://jspecify.dev/docs/user-guide/
- 5: https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/reference/7.1-SNAPSHOT/core/null-safety.html
- 6: https://docs.spring.io/spring/reference/7.1-SNAPSHOT/core/null-safety.html
Annotate nullable varargs in the forwarding overloads.
@Nullable Object... permits nullable elements. The String and Class<T> overloads still declare non-null elements while forwarding the same array to the constructor overload. Add @Nullable to both parameters and test nullable arguments through all three overloads.
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In
`@testng-core-api/src/main/java/org/testng/internal/objects/InstanceCreator.java`
around lines 40 - 42, Update the String and Class<T> overloads of
InstanceCreator.newInstance to annotate their varargs element types as nullable,
matching the constructor overload’s `@Nullable` Object... contract. Add coverage
verifying nullable arguments through the constructor, String, and Class<T>
overloads.
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Java Throwable(Throwable cause) constructor null cause API contract Java 25
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In Java 25, the java.lang.Throwable(Throwable cause) constructor explicitly permits a null value for the cause parameter [1][2]. According to the official API contract, passing null as the cause indicates that the cause of the throwable is nonexistent or unknown [1][2]. When this constructor is invoked with a null cause, the detail message of the new Throwable instance is set to null (calculated as cause == null? null: cause.toString) [1][2]. The cause is then stored and can be retrieved later via the getCause method, which will return null if the cause is nonexistent or unknown [1][2]. This behavior is consistent with long-standing Java specifications dating back to Java 1.4 [3][1]. The constructor is designed to be useful for throwables that act as wrappers for other throwables, and the allowance of null provides flexibility for scenarios where an exception is created without a preceding underlying cause [1][2].
Citations:
- 1: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/25/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/Throwable.html
- 2: https://javadoc.scijava.org/Java25/java.base/java/lang/Throwable.html
- 3: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/26/docs/api/java.base/java/lang/Throwable.html
Align the cause-only constructor’s nullness contract.
@NullMarked makes ThreadTimeoutException(Throwable cause) non-null, but Throwable(Throwable) accepts null. Annotate cause with @Nullable, or reject null explicitly before delegation.
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In
`@testng-core-api/src/main/java/org/testng/internal/thread/ThreadTimeoutException.java`
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to align its cause parameter with Throwable(Throwable): annotate cause as
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Align the nullable factory contract.
ITestObjectFactory.newInstance(Constructor<T>, ...) is non-null, but ObjectFactoryImpl can return null. Annotate the interface and instantiateUsingDefaultConstructor as nullable, then reject a null enclosing instance before passing it to the nested-class constructor. The outer createInstance path already checks its result.
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In `@testng-core/src/main/java/org/testng/internal/objects/ObjectFactoryImpl.java`
at line 17, Align the nullability contract by marking
ITestObjectFactory.newInstance and instantiateUsingDefaultConstructor as
nullable, then validate the enclosing instance returned for nested-class
construction before passing it to the constructor. Preserve the existing
createInstance null-result check.
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Handle the (null, null) BasicAttributes state.
BasicAttributes has a public constructor with two nullable parameters. A caller can create this state through the public dispenser API. The Guice dispenser currently throws NullPointerException before delegation, and SimpleObjectDispenser has the same uncaught failure. Reject this state through the intended TestNGException path.
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In
`@testng-core/src/main/java/org/testng/internal/objects/SimpleObjectDispenser.java`
around lines 58 - 60, Update SimpleObjectDispenser to detect BasicAttributes
with both nullable fields unset before dereferencing basic.getTestClass(), and
reject it through the established TestNGException path. Preserve normal
delegation to objectFactory.newInstance for valid attributes, and align the
handling with GuiceBasedObjectDispenser.
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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 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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Thirty files in testng-core, three in testng-core-api -- the first package whose minority half is more than a single file, and the first one upstream of packages already marked and merged: org.testng.internal.invokers, org.testng.internal.objects, org.testng.annotations and org.testng.internal.objects.pojo all read it. Marking a leaf could only produce errors in its own files; this one could produce them in code already shipped. The package-info goes in testng-core-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 DisabledRetryAnalyzer.java:14 and, separately, at BaseAnnotation.java:9. Forty-nine errors -- one in testng-core-api, forty-eight in testng-core. 91 @nullable, two Objects.requireNonNull and nine restructurings answer them. The shape of the package is a tag hierarchy -- BaseAnnotation, then TestOrConfiguration and the leaves TestAnnotation, FactoryAnnotation, DataProviderAnnotation, ListenersAnnotation -- with one producer, JDK15TagFactory, which constructs a tag and immediately fills every field from the Java annotation it mirrors. That producer decides how the "field not initialized" errors are answered. Where the interface already published a @nullable getter the field takes the annotation; where it published a non-null one the field takes the default of the annotation member it mirrors, because that is what the tag factory assigns a line later and what every reader already treats as absent: "" for the data provider name and the two dataProvider strings, an empty list for indices, DisableDataProviderRetries for retryUsing, an empty array for @listeners, and DisabledRetryAnalyzer for retryAnalyzer -- the value BaseTestMethod.setRetryAnalyzerClass already substitutes for null. Annotating those instead would have published nullity on six getters whose every caller dereferences them. IAnnotationFinder is the other half. Its javadoc has said "or null if none found" since it was written, and JDK15AnnotationFinder returns a literal null in two of the six overloads, so the implementation had to be @nullable -- and NullAway then rejected it against the non-null interface. Those six returns are demanded, not documentation: NullAway is silent on type *arguments*, not on a @nullable return that happens to be a type variable. AnnotationHelper's five delegates and both findConfiguration overloads follow from the same source. Downstream, ten files in the four marked packages read this package and two needed anything. ClassBasedParallelWorker.isSequential already tested its ITestAnnotation for null; #3380 had to read that guard as residue because findAnnotation was non-null, and it is now demanded. ConfigInvoker:308 passes the result of AnnotationHelper.findConfiguration to handleConfigurationSkip, which #3381 tightened to non-null; requireNonNull there records that a ConfigurationMethod only exists because TestNGMethodFinder:130 found a configuration annotation on that very method, through the same lookup. That settles the second deferred finding of #3381 -- handleConfigurationFailure keeps `null != annotation` on one path and Objects.requireNonNull on the other. Annotating the return makes the asymmetry compiler-visible instead of a reading, and it does not reproduce: that parameter is null only when the throw happened before the assignment, and the statements that precede it can only produce an NPE (requireNonNull on the instance) or a TestNGException (the annotation finder), neither of which passes isSkipExceptionAndSkip -- the sole gate to the requireNonNull path. The remaining guard is unreachable rather than wrong, so no issue is opened. DisabledRetryAnalyzer needs nothing, which is worth saying rather than leaving as a zero: it is public surface despite the package -- Test#retryAnalyzer() names it -- but its one method overrides IRetryAnalyzer.retry(ITestResult), which is unannotated, and NullAway never widens an implementation against an unannotated supertype. Of the other two files in the minority, IDataProvidable needed the getDataProviderClass pair, which its own subinterface ITestAnnotation had already declared @nullable and therefore contradicted, and IAnnotationFinder needed the six returns plus the one class its own overload passes null for. findOptionalValues stays as it is: its javadoc describes null *elements*, which NullAway does not check. Three of the nine restructurings are not field defaults. JDK15AnnotationFinder returns early when findAnnotationInSuperClasses finds nothing, which is what the private overload it calls did on its first line, and keeps Pair's constructor non-null. JDK15TagFactory asserts the method it was handed when building a data provider tag -- @dataProvider is only ever looked up on a method, never on a class. ListenersAnnotation starts from an empty array instead of null. Every annotation is classified by deletion and recompilation, one at a time: 87 of the 91 bring back a named error. The four that do not stay, because dropping them would leave a contract contradicting itself. Two are interface parameters, which NullAway never checks an implementation against: IAnnotationFinder's @nullable class, whose matching parameter in JDK15AnnotationFinder is demanded by the literal null its own overload passes, and IDataProvidable.setDataProviderClass, which ITestAnnotation already declares @nullable and whose two implementations are demanded. The other two are JDK models NullAway reads optimistically: IgnoreListener walks up package names with Package.getPackage, and the private findAnnotation in JDK15AnnotationFinder takes the result of Method.getAnnotation. Both test their parameter on the first line of the body, and both are null on every lookup that finds nothing. One trap worth recording: a plain javac error anywhere in the module -- here a generic array creation -- stops the NullAway pass entirely, so the compiler reports zero NullAway errors on code full of them. A clean reading means nothing until the compile itself is clean.
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Continues the JSpecify/NullAway stack. Base is #3375.
After #3375 there is no single-module package left in the published modules. All ten survivors span
several Gradle modules at once, which is the constraint the stack had been routing around, so the
technique changes here: both halves of a package go in the same commit. This PR takes the four whose
minority half is a single file -- 28 main files, one commit per package, smallest first.
No file moves.
testng-reflection-utilsandtestng-runner-apiexist to publish exactly thosetypes; emptying them would undo a deliberate split.
The coverage had to be proved, not assumed
On a single-module package, dropping a
package-info.javaguarantees the whole package is checked.On a split package the direction of the dependency decides: module A's
package-info.classreachesB's compile classpath only if B depends on A. Put it on the wrong side and the majority half compiles
without being checked -- green build, zero errors, a false negative shaped exactly like a success.
So the negative control is per module traversed, not once per package. A throwaway
went into one file per module, eight in all, and each module was compiled on its own. Before the
package-info.java:BUILD SUCCESSFUL, zero NullAway errors -- the probes are inert on their own.After it, every one of the eight fails with
[NullAway] returning @Nullable expression from method with @NonNull return type. The four thatmatter are the
testng-coreones, since that is the half the mark has to travel to:package-info.javaintestng-coreatorg.testng.utiltestng-collectionsTimeUtils.java:60org.testng.internal.threadtestng-core-apiThreadUtil.java:100org.testng.internal.objectstestng-core-apiDispenser.java:22org.testng.internal.reflecttestng-reflection-utilsDirectMethodMatcher.java:46A
package-info.classfrom an upstream module does reach the downstream compile, so one file perpackage is enough and no second
package-info.javawas needed. The error counts below thereforemean something.
What the check reported
@NullablerequireNonNullorg.testng.utilorg.testng.internal.threadorg.testng.internal.objectsorg.testng.internal.reflectTwenty-nine annotations for thirty-eight errors. The classification is proven by deletion, not
asserted:
org.testng.utilreports nothing either way, which is what makes its two (C) rather than(E); the two
internal.threadannotations are both, forced by a literalnulland independentlyjustified by a real caller; and every one in the last two packages was added against a named error at
that exact line. The two in
internal.reflectthat land on a public surface were deleted andrecompiled one more time to be sure -- both errors come back, at
AbstractMethodMatcher.java:19andReflectionRecipes.java:449.RetryAnalyzerCountneeds nothingStating it plainly rather than leaving it as a zero in a table, because it is the one class here that
users extend and a
@Nullableon it would publish a nullity contract that could never be withdrawn.Nothing forces one: its only field has an inline initialiser, no method returns a reference type, and
retry(ITestResult)overrides an unannotated supertype, which NullAway never widens. The package nowrecords both of its parameters as non-null, which is what TestNG has always passed.
Deferred
Two behaviour findings reproduce and are fixed elsewhere, not here.
#3377 --
org.testng.internal.objects. Both constats #3374 deferred.dispenseObjectdereferences the suite context without a guard, and the invariant that made it safe does not hold: a
@Guice-annotated listener registered throughsetListenerClassesor the CLI-listenerarriveswith neither a test context nor a suite context and throws
NullPointerException. Reproduced. ThisPR records the invariant with
Objects.requireNonNull, so the failure stays an NPE at the samepoint and nothing moves. The second constat -- both dispensers testing
getBasicAttributes()fornull -- does not reproduce: the field is
final, declared non-null in an already-marked class,and all seven construction sites pass a fresh
BasicAttributes, so neither branch is reachable. Itis in the issue only so the dead code is removed deliberately, with a warning about the tempting
wrong fix.
#3378 --
org.testng.internal.reflect. This is the package #3361 came out of, and it had neverbeen marked. Four findings, all reproduced. The first is a wrong entry in the very table #3362
repaired:
chardoes not widen toshort(JLS 5.1.2), soisInstanceOf(short.class, 'a')answerstrue and a data provider feeding a
Characterto ashortparameter is accepted and then failsinside
Method.invokewithargument type mismatch. The other three each corrupt a diagnostic --stringifythrowsClassCastExceptionon a primitive array while formatting a mismatch message,nativelyInjectthrows with anullmessage when the injection target is a constructor, andlenientMatchis dead code that goes out of bounds on its own javadoc example.One more commit: the convention was written nowhere
Nine of the packages marked so far were single-module, where a
package-info.javais self-evidentlyenough. The ten that remain are not, and nothing in the repository said so -- the discipline lived
entirely in commit messages and PR bodies. A fifth commit puts the per-module control in
AGENTS.md,next to the other verification gates, together with the fact that
@NullMarkeddoes not descend intosub-packages. Without it the next split package repeats the trap, and the trap is silent.
Prose is the stopgap, not the end state. It only fires when someone is deliberately marking a
package, and the worse case is unattended drift -- a new file added to a module that does not depend
on the one holding the
package-info.javacompiles unchecked with nothing to notice. That invariantis mechanically checkable from what is already in the tree (for each marked package, every module
with sources in it must carry that
package-info.classon its compile classpath), in the same shapeas
verifyPublishedPomDependencies. Worth doing while six split packages are still unmarked, but itis a build change, not a null-marking one -- happy to open an issue if that reads right.
Verification
testng-core. All reverted../gradlew build--BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 5m 40s, 16,373 tests, 0 failures, 0 errors, and no<failure>or<error>element in any result XML.autostyleApplyrun separately from the build, as ever.Summary by CodeRabbit
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