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Merge after #8039.

An overriding method, or a method reference, must not permit more side
effects than the method it overrides or implements. For an unbound method
reference the two methods' parameters do not correspond positionally, so the
referenced method's expressions are translated into the frame of the
functional interface method before they are compared.

Adds PurityKind.SIDE_EFFECTS_ONLY, which only this check consumes.

mernst and others added 17 commits August 20, 2026 22:26
…ssionMap

The method returns a map from a method declaration to expression strings, so
the old name misdescribed it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The method checks only that the annotation's expressions parse, not the
method body against the annotation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…zers

TreeUtils.getExplicitConstructorCall, TreePathUtil.getInstanceInitializers,
and ElementUtils.getNoArgumentConstructor.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A parse error in a contract annotation now names the contract kind, the
annotation, and the method, via a new helper parseErrorInContext that is
shared with sideEffectsOnlyParseError, instead of prepending an ad-hoc
string to a bare flowexpr.parse.error message.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…10-part-2' and 'side-effects-only-2-10-part-7' into side-effects-only-2-10-part-8
Until now, a @SideEffectsOnly annotation was trusted at call sites and only
its syntax was checked.  The new DisallowedSideEffects scanner verifies a
method body -- and a lambda body, against the annotation on the functional
interface method -- reporting every side effect that the annotation does not
permit.

Body checking happens only under -AcheckPurityAnnotations.  The new field
BaseTypeVisitor.checkPurityAnnotationsOption distinguishes that option from
checkPurityAnnotations, which -AsuggestPureMethods and -Ainfer also imply.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
An overriding method, or a method reference, must not permit more side
effects than the method it overrides or implements.  For an unbound method
reference the two methods' parameters do not correspond positionally, so the
referenced method's expressions are translated into the frame of the
functional interface method before they are compared.

Adds PurityKind.SIDE_EFFECTS_ONLY, which only this check consumes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The change adds full @SideEffectsOnly support to purity checking. It validates annotation expressions, checks method and constructor bodies, handles fresh allocations and desugared calls, and checks callbacks, lambdas, method references, and overrides. It also adds diagnostics, annotation accessors, option gating, documentation, and extensive tests for expression parsing, inheritance, constructors, arrays, nested code, stub files, and diagnostic behavior.

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The side-effects-only checker can miss prohibited effects in anonymous-class initializers and can issue spurious diagnostics for constructors with implicit super calls. These correctness issues should be fixed before merge.

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In `@checker/jtreg/sideeffectsonly/SideEffectsOnlyDiagnostics.java`:
- Around line 6-7: Update the Javadoc sentence describing Main.java so it states
that Main.java runs this file through a checker that analyzes each call site,
while preserving the surrounding diagnostic explanation.

In `@docs/manual/advanced-features.tex`:
- Around line 1206-1207: Remove the \iffalse...\fi wrapper around the
“Overriding for <`@SideEffectsOnly`>” subsection so it is included in the rendered
manual, preserving the subsection content and its label.

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`@framework/src/main/java/org/checkerframework/common/basetype/DisallowedSideEffects.java`:
- Line 259: Update the implicit super-constructor check in DisallowedSideEffects
to pass a ThisReference for classElt.asType() instead of null to
checkImplicitCall, so receiver-dependent side-effect validation treats the
object under construction as this and permits its fields.
- Around line 905-911: Update visitNewClass to scan anonymous-class instance and
field initializers even when the constructor is considered side-effect-free,
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Comment on lines +6 to +7
* Main.java runs this file through analyzes each call site. The diagnostic about the lambda is
* likewise issued once, though every checker checks the lambda.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Fix the malformed Javadoc sentence.

Main.java runs this file through analyzes each call site is not grammatical. State that Main.java runs the file through a checker that analyzes each call site.

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In `@checker/jtreg/sideeffectsonly/SideEffectsOnlyDiagnostics.java` around lines 6
- 7, Update the Javadoc sentence describing Main.java so it states that
Main.java runs this file through a checker that analyzes each call site, while
preserving the surrounding diagnostic explanation.

Comment on lines +1206 to +1207
\iffalse
\subsubsectionAndLabel{Overriding for \<@SideEffectsOnly>}{side-effects-overriding}

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Enable the new manual subsection.

The added subsection is enclosed in \iffalse...\fi, so it is omitted from the rendered manual. Remove the wrapper so users can read the new override and method-reference contract.

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
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In `@docs/manual/advanced-features.tex` around lines 1206 - 1207, Remove the
\iffalse...\fi wrapper around the “Overriding for <`@SideEffectsOnly`>” subsection
so it is included in the rendered manual, preserving the subsection content and
its label.

mernst and others added 11 commits September 12, 2026 09:17
…fork-mernst-branch-side-effects-only-2-10-part-8 into side-effects-only-2-10-part-9
…fork-mernst-branch-side-effects-only-2-10-part-8 into side-effects-only-2-10-part-9
Checking the arguments that a @SideEffectsOnly call might invoke as
callbacks is implemented on branch `side-effect-free-functional-params`,
which checks them against the callee's purity annotation instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Address code review findings:

* A callee, or the functional interface method that a lambda implements,
  may inherit its @SideEffectsOnly annotation rather than declare it.
  Because @SideEffectsOnly is not inherited as an annotation,
  `getDeclAnnotation` does not find it; use
  `getSideEffectsOnlyExpressionMap` and parse each expression in the
  scope of the method that declares it.  Previously, a call to such a
  method was reported as modifying arbitrary state, and a lambda body was
  not checked at all.

* An object that a `new` expression creates did not exist before the
  call, so modifying it is not visible to the caller.  Recognize it at a
  call site, and recognize an `ArrayCreation` -- a `new` expression for
  an array, or the array that a call site builds out of the arguments to
  a varargs formal parameter -- in `isFreshlyAllocated`.

* Report a conflict when @SideEffectsOnly is written together with a
  @pure or @SideEffectFree annotation that is written, even when the
  method also inherits the other one of those two.

* Pass the object under construction as the receiver of the implicit
  superclass constructor call.

* Document that the implicit `toString()` call of string concatenation is
  not checked, as in `PurityChecker`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…fork-mernst-branch-side-effects-only-2-10-part-8 into side-effects-only-2-10-part-9

Both branches added an override check for `@SideEffectsOnly`.  Keep part-8's
`checkSideEffectsOnly`, which reports the offending expression, as the check
for an override, and call it from `checkOverride`.  `checkPurity` now compares
the two annotations' expressions only for a method reference, which
`checkSideEffectsOnly` does not handle.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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