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Bring the Purity Checker chapter in line with the @SideEffectFree javadoc:
creating a lambda or a local/anonymous class is not a side effect, a
lambda's body is checked against the functional method's annotations, and
@SideEffectFree on a method with a functional-interface parameter is also a
requirement on that method's callers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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A method annotated @SideEffectFree, @deterministic, @pure, or @SideEffectsOnly may call the
functional method of its own effectively final functional-interface parameters.

At each call to such a method, every argument passed to a functional-interface parameter must
have the callee's purity: a lambda's body is checked directly, a method reference against the
declaration of the method it refers to, and any other argument against the functional method of
its declared type.  An argument that is an effectively final functional-interface parameter of an
enclosing method that makes the same promise needs no check, because the caller of that method
already performed one.  A requirement that the parameter's own functional method already makes is
left to the checks that exist for it.  New message key: purity.functional.argument.

PurityChecker.checkPurity takes the method whose body is being checked, so that the assumption
applies to a method body but not to a lambda body, which its own functional method constrains,
nor to the arbitrary expression that CFAbstractTransfer passes.

Three existing test files call an annotated JDK method with a functional-interface argument.
Optional.map is @SideEffectFree and its declaration comments that "the mapper must not have side
effects"; Collections.min is @pure and List.sort is @SideEffectsOnly("this"), so each requires a
side-effect-free Comparator.  framework/tests/flow/PurityFunctionalArgumentJdk.java asserts those
errors; the two all-systems files suppress them, because only 3 of the 37 test suites that
compile that directory pass -AcheckPurityAnnotations.

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A lambda's parameters have the enclosing method as their enclosing element, so testing that was
not enough to identify a parameter of the method being checked; test membership in its parameter
list.  A lambda's parameter is checked at no call site, so passing one on was unsound.

An argument's type may be a class, including an anonymous class, that implements the parameter's
functional interface.  Check the class's implementation of the functional method, which is the
code that will run; before, no check was made at all.

An anonymous class's constructor is synthetic and carries no annotation, so `new C(arg) {}`
skipped the check that `new C(arg)` performs.  Use TreeUtils.getSuperConstructor.

A functional method that returns no value is deterministic, whatever implements it, so do not
demand determinism of a lambda in that position while granting it to a method reference.

An array constructor reference such as String[]::new creates an array, which modifies nothing,
and cannot be annotated; treat it as side-effect-free.

A lambda body may call the enclosing method's functional-interface parameters: the caller of that
method was required to supply side-effect-free values, and that remains true whenever the lambda
runs.  Both lambda-body checks now pass the enclosing method, so that `o.map(s -> f.apply(s))` is
accepted where `o.map(f)` is.

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The type of a conditional or switch expression in an invocation context is the
parameter's type, so checking the argument against its declared type checked
the parameter's own functional method, which says nothing about the code that
any result expression denotes.  Two pure lambdas in a conditional were reported
as impure.  Check each result expression on its own instead.

Also:

 * Do not compute the super constructor of a `new` expression unless purity
   checking is on; for an anonymous class it searches the synthetic constructor
   for the super call.
 * Correct the `checkPurity` javadoc and the CHANGELOG: both lambda-body call
   sites pass the enclosing method, not null.  The lambda's body is checked
   against the functional method it implements, but the enclosing method's
   parameters still hold values that its caller was required to check.
 * Use `elementFromTree` in `isFunctionalInterfaceParameter`; `elementFromUse`
   throws rather than returning null, so the null guard was dead.  Extracting
   `functionalInterfaceParameterType` also removes a duplicate functional
   interface lookup on every call in a purity-annotated method.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
`functionalMethodOf` passed the null type's element to
`Elements#getAllMembers`, which throws a NullPointerException because
javac's bottom-type symbol has no members.  A null literal argument to a
functional-interface parameter therefore crashed the purity check; the
new recursion into conditional and switch result expressions extended
that to `b ? null : ref` and `case 1 -> null`.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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The Purity Checker now uses enclosing-method and processing-environment context to assess calls through eligible functional-interface parameters. BaseTypeVisitor checks functional-interface arguments to annotated methods and constructors, including lambdas, method references, conditional and switch expressions, and varargs. The changes also update purity inference and method-reference checks, add diagnostic messages, expand test coverage, and document the purity rules and checker options.

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Some valid method references can be rejected, and generic calls that only return a callback can demand purity from it. Those checker behaviors should be resolved before merging; the remaining documentation gaps are narrower.

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  • observed — Inference supplies false for all assume-purity options, preventing those command-line assumptions from becoming persisted guarantees through this path. Caller-derived parameter purity also accounts for overridden declarations with incompatible functional-parameter contracts.

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In `@docs/manual/purity-checker.tex`:
- Around line 6-7: Update the deterministic-method definition near the existing
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identity. Clarify that this excludes dependence on changing heap state and
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- Around line 1618-1622: Update the implementationPurityKinds construction to
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and implementation objects receive missing purity kinds such as assumed
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Whole-program inference cannot annotate a lambda expression or a method
reference, so it cannot make an argument meet a requirement that such an
inferred annotation imposes at every call site.

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The caller of the enclosing method was required to pass code with the
purity that the method promises, so such a call does not invalidate the
initial store of a lambda that does not leak.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
A method reference to the functional method of a functional-interface
parameter denotes the code that the caller of the enclosing method was
required to check, and the command-line purity assumptions apply to the
referenced method as they do to a call in a lambda body.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
In the expanded form of a varargs call, each argument from the varargs
parameter onward is checked against the component type of its array.  In
the array form, each initializer of an array literal is checked; the
elements of any other array are unknown, so they are not checked.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
`-AassumeSideEffectFree`, `-AassumeDeterministic`, `-AassumePure`, and
`-AassumePureGetters` are documented as assumptions about every called method,
and the manual gives "working with an unannotated library" as the reason to use
`-AassumePureGetters`.  `PurityChecker.visitMethodInvocation` applied them only
to a method that already carried a purity annotation, so an unannotated getter
was rejected even under `-AassumePureGetters`.  `AnnotatedTypeFactory`,
`CFAbstractStore`, and `PurityChecker.visitNewClass` have no such restriction,
so the option also meant two different things depending on which of them read
it.

A `void` return type now grants determinism only to a method that is also
side-effect-free.  That is no change for an annotated method, because the
shortcut was reachable only for one annotated `@SideEffectFree` or
`@Deterministic`.  For an unannotated method, it is what keeps a call to a
side-effecting `void` method from being treated as deterministic.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
…annotation

`implementationPurityKinds` granted an assumption only to a method that already
carried a purity annotation, so under `-AassumePureGetters` an unannotated
getter was rejected as a functional argument:  `Comparator.comparing(Person::getName)`
did not type-check however the option was set.  The documented meaning of the
option, and its stated reason to exist, is an unannotated library.

`PurityChecker` checks a lambda's body and still has the same restriction, so a
lambda and a method reference to the same method are not yet treated alike.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
…onal-params

Resolved `PurityChecker.visitMethodInvocation`: keep the purity that the
enclosing method promises for a functional-interface parameter, and drop the
restriction that applied an assumption only to a method that already had a
purity annotation.  A lambda and a method reference to the same method are now
treated alike under the assumptions.

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The annotated JDK now declares `Comparator.compare` as `@Pure` and the
comparator-returning methods as `@SideEffectFree`.

`PurityFunctionalArgumentJdk`: a `Comparator` value now carries the purity that
`Collections.min` and `List.sort` require of it, so the `PureComparator`
sub-interface that used to supply it is unnecessary.  `Optional.map` with a
`Function` value takes its place as the case of a functional method that
promises nothing.  A comparator written at a call site is now checked against
`@Pure` rather than `@SideEffectFree`.

`Issue7680`: a key extractor passed to `Comparator.comparing` or
`thenComparing` must be side-effect-free.

`Issue579`: its override of `thenComparing`, which is now `@SideEffectFree`,
calls a constructor, so that constructor must be side-effect-free too.

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🟡 Minor · Apply the functional-parameter guarantee in… · BaseTypeVisitor.java:5126-5140

framework/src/main/java/org/checkerframework/common/basetype/BaseTypeVisitor.java:5126-5140
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Apply the functional-parameter guarantee in checkMethodReferencePurity.

checkMethodReferencePurity compares only the declared purity of the referenced method. For f::apply in this example, the referenced method is Function.apply:

  • f is an effectively final functional-interface parameter of a @Pure enclosing method.
  • The target type's functional method is @Pure.

In this case the check reports purity.methodref. At the call site, checkFunctionalArgument grants the guarantee to f::apply (Lines 1896-1905). checkLambdaPurity accepts the equivalent lambda x -> f.apply(x). So a method reference is rejected where the equivalent lambda is accepted.

Before the comparison, add the kinds from PurityChecker.functionalParameterPurity to subPurity in this case: the qualifier is such a parameter, and the referenced method is its functional method.

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-      EnumSet<PurityKind> subPurity =
-          PurityUtils.getPurityKinds(atypeFactory, overrider.getElement());
+      EnumSet<PurityKind> subPurity =
+          EnumSet.copyOf(PurityUtils.getPurityKinds(atypeFactory, overrider.getElement()));
+      ExpressionTree qualifier = ((MemberReferenceTree) overriderTree).getQualifierExpression();
+      MethodTree enclosingMethod = TreePathUtil.enclosingMethod(getCurrentPath());
+      ProcessingEnvironment env = atypeFactory.getProcessingEnv();
+      if (PurityChecker.isFunctionalMethodOfParameter(
+          qualifier, overrider.getElement(), enclosingMethod, env)) {
+        // `f::apply` denotes code that the caller of the enclosing method was required to check.
+        subPurity.addAll(
+            PurityChecker.functionalParameterPurity(atypeFactory, qualifier, enclosingMethod, env));
+      }

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…er purity requirement

The test currently fails: the checker does not report that Base.apply, which
assumes its functional argument is side-effect-free, implements
Unannotated.apply (which imposes nothing) in class Sub.
The expected diagnostic key purity.functional.parameter.inherited is a placeholder.

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…nctional-params

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…ctional arguments

A call through an overridden declaration that promises no purity does not rely on the
override's purity, so it no longer limits what the override may assume of its
functional-interface parameters.  Only an overridden declaration that promises purity without
checking the argument, such as one whose parameter type is a type variable, limits it.

Code that calls a functional-interface parameter does rely on the purity of the call, so an
object or method reference passed as a functional argument is now checked: the method that
runs may assume of its own functional-interface parameters only what a call through the
parameter's functional method checks.

Also, when an argument's class inherits the implementation of the functional method from a
superclass, check the argument against that implementation rather than the abstract method.
…ements the parameter's functional method

A functional subinterface may implement the parameter's functional method with a default method
and declare an unrelated abstract method as its own functional method.  Use the argument type's
functional method only if it is or overrides the parameter's functional method; otherwise use the
implementation that runs.  Grant the enclosing method's guarantee for a functional-interface
parameter only when the argument's method is that parameter's functional method.
…runs

A lambda or method reference whose type is a functional subinterface with an unrelated
functional method implements that method, not the parameter's functional method, so check it
against the implementation of the parameter's functional method that actually runs.  An
override may assume of a functional-interface parameter only what callers through the
overridden declaration check, so it gets nothing from an overridden declaration whose
parameter's functional method its own parameter's functional method does not override.

Report each purity error once per compound checker rather than once per subchecker.
… at the call site

A parameter whose declared type is a type variable of its class may be a functional interface at
a call whose receiver instantiates the type variable with one, and an implementation of the
method may call it.  Check such an argument against the functional method of the parameter's
type at the call site.  A parameter whose type is a type variable of the method itself, such as
that of List.of, is not checked, since no implementation knows that the argument is code.

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156-158: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the visible @SideEffectsOnly reference or hide it.

Lines 107-112 hide the @SideEffectsOnly bullet in \iffalse, and the annotation list at Lines 39-42 also hides @SideEffectsOnly. The text "(side-effect-free for a <@SideEffectsOnly> method)" at Lines 157-158 is still visible. Readers therefore see a rule for an annotation that the chapter never introduces. A past review raised the same visibility inconsistency.

📝 Proposed fix
 At each call to such a method, every argument passed to a functional-interface
-parameter must have the purity that the method promises (side-effect-free for
-a \<@SideEffectsOnly> method).  For a varargs parameter whose element type is
+parameter must have the purity that the method promises.  For a varargs parameter whose element type is
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Review comment at @docs/manual/purity-checker.tex around lines 156 - 158:
Remove the visible `@SideEffectsOnly` example from the purity rule in the
surrounding documentation, leaving the general requirement that arguments match
the method’s promised purity. Preserve the varargs explanation that follows.

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…e at the call site

A parameter whose declared type is a type variable of the method itself, such as that of List.of,
is now checked like one whose type is a type variable of its class: if the call instantiates the
type variable with a functional interface, the argument is checked against that interface's
functional method.  A method that is passed a functional-interface argument is assumed to call it.

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- Around line 166-168: Update the `List.of` example in the purity-checker
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explicit type argument or the `List<Runnable>` assignment used by the test. Keep
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- Line 1720: Restrict the functional-argument substitution fallback in
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do not apply it to a method’s own type variables. Update the adjacent
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variables such as List.of(E) trigger substitution.
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Comment thread docs/manual/purity-checker.tex Outdated
…d type variable

A call may instantiate such a type variable with a functional interface, and then the argument is
checked against the method's purity.  Whole-program inference cannot make a lambda or method
reference meet that requirement, so inferring @pure for a method such as `<Z> Z identity(Z p)`
caused purity warnings at callers that pass an impure lambda.

Also give the List.of example in the manual an explicit Runnable type argument.
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Closed in favor of #8327

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