Invariant not obeyed for private constructor
Reported by Thomas Han | May 16th, 2011 @ 10:16 AM
@Invariant({
g != null
}) class G {
String g
private G(String g) {
this.g = g
}
static G of(String g) {
return new G(g)
}
}
If we construct the G object with the static method the invariant is not obeyed.
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me (at andresteingress) May 18th, 2011 @ 11:15 AM
- State changed from “new” to “hold”
- Assigned user set to “me (at andresteingress)”
this behavior is ideational to allow GContracts to be used in frameworks like Hibernate etal. that make use of private/protected constructors to create uninitialized objects. therefore private constructors are not supported by now.
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Thomas Han May 18th, 2011 @ 11:29 AM
There are other scenarios where private constructors are valid.
Private constructors might be used by static factory methods.
Ideally you would want to centralised the contract on the constructors not on the static factory method.
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