JAPICC 2.2

This release includes the following changes.

Analysis:

• Fixed analysis of generic types
• Added compatibility rules:
  • Class_Became_Raw
  • Class_Became_Generic
  • Interface_Became_Raw
  • Interface_Became_Generic
  • Changed_Method_Return
  • Variable_Arity_To_Array
  • Array_To_Variable_Arity
  • Field_Became_NonFinal (Src)
  • NonConstant_Field_Became_Static (Src)
  • Static_Method_Became_Final (Bin)
• Fixed rules:
  • Changed_Field_Type
  • Changed_Method_Return_From_Void
  • *_Added_Abstract_Method*
• Fixed anasysis of added/removed super-classes
• Compare class structure if became generic or raw
• Check for unknown compatibility rules
• Do not list added and removed protected methods in final classes
• Reduced severity of changed super-class
• Added -check-packages option to check packages matched by the regular expression
• Fixed filtering of annotated classes
• Fixed -client option

Report:

• Show method return type in the problem description
• Fixed signatures of generic constructors
• Fixed order of methods in the report
• Add noindex meta tag to empty reports
• Fixed styles of the report

Dump:

• Added GenericParam attribute
• Fixed Type and BaseType of variable arity parameter
• Show warning for old API dump versions
• Increased ID length
• Fixed methods mangled names in the API dump; old dumps should be recreated
• Bumped dump version

Tests:

• Added more test cases
• Show path to the tests journal

Misc:

• Properly handle errors of javap
• Fixed number of arguments passed to javap on Linux
• Properly handle errors when creating/extracting tarballs