[DrJava] [ drjava-Bugs-1913033 ] Cannot instantiate inner class in Interactions pane

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Bugs item #1913033, was opened at 2008-03-12 20:28
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Category: Interactions
Group: 4: Serious
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Stephen Wong (sbwong)
Assigned to: Dan Smith (dlsmith)
Summary: Cannot instantiate inner class in Interactions pane

Initial Comment:
Important note:  problem seen in version  20080124-1942 but appears to be fixed in version 20080312-1948 revision 4395


Consider the following class with a nested class (problem exists for inner classes too):

public class OuterClass {
  public static class InnerClass {
  }
  
  public InnerClass makeIt() {
    return new InnerClass(); 
  }
}

If you try to run the following lines in the Interactions pane, the first will succeed but the rest will fail with the error
"Static Error: Name is ambiguous"

OuterClass oc = new OuterClass();  // this line ok in Interactions pane

OuterClass.InnerClass in1 = new OuterClass.InnerClass(); // fails in Interactions pane

OuterClass.InnerClass in2 = oc.makeIt(); // fails in Interactions pane

The above code will run just fine if compiled and run normally, e.g. in a test method.

The attached zip file has a project with the above code and a test file that shows that it works when compiled and run normally.



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