Add purity annotations by smillst · Pull Request #299 · typetools/jdk

smillst · 2026-09-22T15:35:14Z

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@pure

The Checker Framework's `checkPurity` task now verifies purity annotations rather than trusting them, because the Purity Checker implies -AcheckPurityAnnotations. That requires purity annotations on the javac and javax.lang.model methods that javacutil calls. Every method annotated here returns a stored field or reads a flag, so @pure is sound. Methods that allocate on each call are deliberately left unannotated or left as @SideEffectFree, because the object they return is not ==-stable: Collection.iterator(), Map.keySet()/entrySet()/values(), and AnnotationValue.getValue(). ExecutableElement.getParameters() carries a @CFComment explaining why @pure is justified even though javac's MethodSymbol builds the list lazily: the list is cached in a private field, so repeated calls return the identical List and no externally-visible state changes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

@pure

Collections.singleton and Collections.singletonList allocate a fresh immutable collection, so they are side-effect-free but not deterministic. TypeMirror.toString() follows the rule that the @CFComment on Object.toString() records: a method that builds its result returns a string that differs according to ==, and @deterministic requires that two calls return == results. LiteralTree.getValue() is @SideEffectFree rather than @pure because javac's JCLiteral.getValue() boxes BOOLEAN and CHAR values, and Character.valueOf caches only below 128, so two calls on a char literal >= 128 do not return == values.

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Checker Framework @Pure, @SideEffectFree, @SideEffectsOnly, and @CFComment annotations were added to collection, comparator, reader, record, language model, and compiler tree APIs. The changes annotate existing declarations. They do not change runtime logic, return types, or method behavior.

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This change affects only static-analysis metadata, not runtime behavior. However, two sets of annotations claim fewer side effects than the methods actually have. Code checked with the Checker Framework could therefore be accepted based on outdated assumptions about a wrapped reader or about objects passed to ElementFilter.methodsIn. These annotations should be corrected before merging.

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Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 87.76% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 49 functions across 22 files.
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These are needed for the Checker Framework's javacutil and framework-test to pass the Purity Checker.

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In `@src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/BufferedReader.java`:
- Line 453: Include the wrapped reader in each effect summary: update the
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- Line 150: Remove `@SideEffectFree` from the affected methodsIn overload in
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src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/BufferedReader.java
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src/java.compiler/share/classes/javax/lang/model/element/AnnotationMirror.java
src/java.compiler/share/classes/javax/lang/model/element/AnnotationValue.java
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coderabbitai · 2026-09-23T16:46:10Z

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     * @see java.nio.file.Files#readAllLines
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+    @SideEffectsOnly("this")


🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Include the wrapped Reader in each effect summary.

@SideEffectsOnly("this") omits the distinct object held in this.in. These methods read from or close that object, so consumers can treat the wrapped Reader as unchanged. The SideEffectsOnly declaration defines its value as an upper bound on expressions a method might change.

src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/BufferedReader.java#L453-L453: Add this.in alongside this because readLine() consumes the wrapped reader.

src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/BufferedReader.java#L637-L637: Add this.in alongside this because close() closes the wrapped reader.

src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/LineNumberReader.java#L261-L261: Add this.in alongside this because readLine() delegates to BufferedReader and consumes the wrapped reader.

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src/java.base/share/classes/java/io/LineNumberReader.java#L261-L261

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coderabbitai · 2026-09-23T16:46:10Z

     * {@return a list of methods in {@code elements}}
     * @param elements the elements to filter
     */
+    @SideEffectFree


🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Remove @SideEffectFree from this overload.

methodsIn delegates to listFilter, which iterates the caller-supplied Iterable and calls Element.getKind() on caller-supplied objects. A custom iterator or Element can mutate visible state during those calls, so this method does not meet the annotation’s no-visible-side-effects contract. The Checker Framework trusts purity annotations by default and uses them to preserve flow facts, so callers can retain stale refinements across this call. (checkerframework.org)

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smillst and others added 4 commits September 18, 2026 10:28

Add purity annotations to Comparator.

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Merge branch 'master' into side-effect-free-functional-params

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smillst mentioned this pull request Sep 22, 2026

Make checkPurity pass for javacutils. typetools/checker-framework#8262

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This was referenced Sep 22, 2026

Collapse the purity.not.* message-key variants into purity.* typetools/checker-framework#8242

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Shorten purity warning suppression keys #298

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mernst assigned smillst and unassigned smillst Sep 23, 2026

Add purity annotations to readers, Record, and javax.lang.model methods

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These are needed for the Checker Framework's javacutil and framework-test to pass the Purity Checker.

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