Compiling a class via `deftype` during AOT compilation gives different results for the different constructors. These hashes should be identical.
This also means that whenever there's a stale AOT compiled deftype class in the classpath, that class will be used rather then the JIT compiled one, breaking repl interaction.
Another demonstration of this classloader issue (from CLJ-1495) when reloading deftypes (no AOT) :
This bug also affects AOT compilation of multimethods that dispatch on a class, this affected core.match for years see http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/MATCH-86, http://dev.clojure.org/jira/browse/MATCH-98. David had to work-around this issue by using a bunch of protocols instead of multimethods.
Cause of the bug: currently clojure uses Class.forName to resolve a class from a class name, which ignores the class cache from DynamicClassLoader thus reloading deftypes or mixing AOT compilation at the repl with deftypes breaks, resolving to the wrong class.
Approach: the current patch (CLJ-979-v7.patch) addresses this issue in multiple ways:
it makes RT.classForName/classForNameNonLoading look in the class cache before delegating to Class/forName if the current classloader is not a DynamicClassLoader (this incidentally addresses also CLJ-1457)
it makes clojure use RT.classForName/classForNameNonLoading instead of Class/forName
it overrides Classloader/loadClass so that it's class cache aware – this method is used by the jvm to load classes
it changes gen-interface to always emit an in-memory interface along with the [optional] on-disk interface so that the in-memory class is always updated.
Patch: CLJ-979-v7.patch
Screened by: Alex Miller
Thanks Nicola. I'll certainly take over sheparding the bug and appeal to the greater community for help in broad testing when I think we're ready for that.
Updated patch with better tests, addressing Alex Miller's comments.
New in-the-wild case: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/clojure/WH6lJwH1vMg
I believe I have a case which is now broken because of this patch. I'm not 100% clear on the details so I might be wrong, but I can't see any other explanation for what I'm seeing. The bug I'm looking at is Cursive #748. Cursive calls into Leiningen in-process, and before doing that I create a new DynamicClassLoader which uses an IntelliJ PluginClassLoader as its parent. I believe that what is happening is that PluginClassLoader.loadClass() delegates to various parent classloaders then throws CNFE if it can't find the class in question. Am I correct in thinking that after this patch DCL now delegates to the parent classloader before checking its URL list, whereas previously it did not?
Colin, I opened CLJ-1663 with a patch that should fix the issue. Can try it and comment on that ticket if it does?