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Java: Support CompileTimeConstantExpr for constant fields from compiled classes
#8650
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When compiled classes have constant fields, source code referencing them uses the constant value. A simple example for this is the following:
class ConstantTest { static final int VALUE = Integer.MAX_VALUE; }
Compiling this class and inspecting it with javap -v shows that the value of Integer.MAX_VALUE, that is 2147483647, has been stored in the class file (instead of performing a field read). This is also explicitly mentioned in JLS 17 §13.4.9.
Currently CodeQL's CompileTimeConstantExpr does not support this; I assume because the information is missing from the database. Would it be possible to store this information in the database during extraction?
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This is definitely something that would be nice to have. I don't currently know how easy it would be to extend the extractor to capture this information.
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