refactor: declare org.testng.internal.invokers null-marked - #3381
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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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instanceandtminBuilder.build().
Builder.build()can returnTestMethodArgumentswith a null instance or test method. Lines 62-69 then fail later in non-null getters. Reject both values during construction.Based on learnings:
getInstance()is not supposed to return null.Proposed fix
return new TestMethodArguments( - instance, - tm, + Objects.requireNonNull(instance), + Objects.requireNonNull(tm), parameterValues,🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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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 #3380.
One package:
org.testng.internal.invokers-- thirty main files intestng-coreandIInvocationStatusintestng-runner-api. It is the last package whose minority half is a singlefile; everything left after it changes a variable, so this closes out the technique #3380
established rather than opening a new one.
org.testng.internal.invokers.objectswas marked in#3374 while its parent was not:
@NullMarkeddoes not descend into sub-packages, so that greenchild said nothing about this package.
The coverage was proved, not assumed
testng-coredeclaresimplementation(projects.testngRunnerApi), so thepackage-info.javagoesin
testng-runner-apiand the mark travels downstream. That is what needed proving, not assuming --put it on the wrong side and the thirty-file majority compiles unchecked, which looks exactly
like success.
Per the procedure now in
AGENTS.md, the negative control runs once per module traversed. Athrowaway
went into one file of each module. Before the
package-info.javaboth compile clean, zero NullAway.After it both fail with
[NullAway] returning @Nullable expression from method with @NonNull return type:testng-runner-apiIInvocationStatus.java:13testng-coreBaseInvoker.java:24Both reverted. The
testng-corerow is the one that matters, and it is red, so the counts belowmean something. Test sources are out of scope -- the convention plugin disables NullAway for test
compiles -- so
ParameterHandlerTestis untouched and 31 main files is the whole job.The minority half then needed no annotation at all:
IInvocationStatusis two primitive accessors.What the check reported
@NullableObjects.requireNonNullEvery annotation is classified by deletion and recompilation -- one at a time, each stripped and
the module recompiled. 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.
Those two guards are residue and stay exactly as they are.
The five that remain without a demand are the
IConfigInvokerparameters. NullAway does not checkan implementation widening an interface parameter, so removing them is silent -- but
ConfigInvoker'smatching five are all demanded, and it passes a literal
nullto its own overload. Dropping themwould leave the interface contradicting its only implementation, so they are (C).
One caveat worth recording: incremental compilation hid errors. Three checks that were clean
incrementally failed under
--rerun-tasks, one of them a spurious error caused by an annotationthat turned out to be unnecessary. Every number above is from a full recompile.
The argument hierarchy decided everything else
Arguments->MethodArguments-> the three leaf types, each built by a builder. The nullity isreal and it is not uniform.
ConfigMethodArgumentsgenuinely carries nulls:TestRunnerandSuiteRunnerbuild it for@BeforeTestand@BeforeSuitewithout a test method, an instance or a class. The code alreadysays so in three places --
ConfigInvokertestsgetTestMethodResult()for null, defaultsgetTestClass()inside its loop, and carries two comments reading "currentTestMethod is null forBeforeClass methods" and "if method is BeforeClass, currentTestMethod will be null".
So
instanceandtmare@Nullableon the shared base. Doing only that took the count from 49 to87:
TestMethodArgumentsandGroupConfigMethodArgumentsalways carry both, and every consumerof 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()andgetInstance()on thosetwo leaves -- returns it to 49 and keeps the fact in one place instead of spreading
requireNonNullacross forty call sites.
The builders are the other half. Their staging fields are
@Nullablebecause a builder starts empty-- a fact about the builder, not about the object it builds.
build()then either passes the valuethrough, when callers really do omit it, or records the invariant with
requireNonNullwhen everycaller sets it.
AbstractParallelWorker.Argumentswas the one builder that mutated the object itwas building, so it could not express that at all; it now takes its seven values through a
constructor and its fields are
final.ThreadExecutionException: fixed at the call site, not on the parameter#3380 left this deliberately, and marking this package makes it visible. The decision is the call
site, and the compiler is what settles it:
MethodInvocationHelper.java:470@Nullableargument into a@NonNullparameterTestInvoker.java:824tee.getCause()-- the JDK model, not the fieldAnnotating
ThreadExecutionException(Throwable)would have silenced the first and left the secondstanding, since
Throwable.getCause()is@Nullablein NullAway 0.13.8's own library modelsregardless of what the constructor says. It would also publish 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 with no guard.
FutureTasknever completes exceptionally without a cause,so
Objects.requireNonNullat both ends records that, keeps the NPE at the same statement, andkeeps the change inside this package instead of reopening one #3380 closed.
#3380's two contracts hold
Both were (C) claims last round and both are confirmed: neither
MethodInvocationHelper:375(
ThreadTimeoutException(tm, timeout, @Nullable cause)) norParameterHandler:87(
Strings.isNotNullAndNotEmpty(@Nullable String)) reports anything, in the first report or thelast.
Restructured rather than annotated
AtomicReference<Boolean>flags becomeAtomicBoolean-- removes the unboxing instead ofannotating around it, and is the right type for a boolean flag.
AbstractParallelWorker.Argumentsgets a constructor, as above.ClassBasedParallelWorkerandTestInvoker.invokeMethodeach bind a value once into a localrather than re-reading a getter, which is not a stable expression.
Deferred: three findings, none reproduced
No behaviour change here. All three are recorded rather than filed, because none of them
reproduces and two are provably unreachable today. Saying so is the point -- they are latent
asymmetries worth knowing about, not bugs.
ConfigInvokerdereferences the resolved instance (Objects.requireNonNull(inst).getClass()).Needs
tm.getInstance()null andarguments.getInstance()null. The second happens on the@BeforeTest/@BeforeSuitepaths that omitusingInstance, and oninvokeAfterClassConfigurations. The first needs a method bound to a@Factoryinstance thatwas never constructed --
BaseTestMethod.getInstance()returns null when theIParameterInfohas no embedded instance. What blocks it: I could not construct a case where TestNG schedules
a configuration method for a factory instance that does not exist; every factory path I tried
creates the instance first. Same family as NullPointerException when a @Guice-annotated listener is registered with setListenerClasses or -listener #3377, different site.
handleConfigurationFailuretreats one value two ways. It guardsnull != annotationbeforerecordConfigurationInvocationFailedon its normal path, but on the skip path it hands the samevalue to
handleConfigurationSkip, which forwards it into that identical call unguarded.Unreachable today: the annotation is only
null if the throw beat
AnnotationHelper.findConfiguration, and the three statements thatprecede it (
tm.getInstance(), the instance dereference,tm.getConstructorOrMethod()) cannotraise a
SkipException, which the branch also requires. A reordering would turn it into a bug.m_executedConfigMethods.add(arguments.getTestMethod())on aConcurrentHashMapkey set,which rejects null. NullAway does not model
KeySetView.add, so it never flagged this.Unreachable today: it is guarded by
isBeforeMethodConfiguration(), and the only buildersthat omit
forTestMethodcarry class-, test- or suite-level configuration methods.Verification
./gradlew build--BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 5m 41s, 16,374 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