Improve diagnostics when AnnotationAttributesReadingVisitor triggers an ArrayStoreException from Class.getAnnotations() [SPR-12387]

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Andy Wilkinson opened SPR-12387 and commented

Here's an example of the failure:

code
Caused by: java.lang.ArrayStoreException: sun.reflect.annotation.TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy
at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseClassArray(AnnotationParser.java:673)
at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseArray(AnnotationParser.java:480)
at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseMemberValue(AnnotationParser.java:306)
at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotation(AnnotationParser.java:241)
at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations2(AnnotationParser.java:88)
at sun.reflect.annotation.AnnotationParser.parseAnnotations(AnnotationParser.java:70)
at java.lang.Class.initAnnotationsIfNecessary(Class.java:3178)
at java.lang.Class.getAnnotations(Class.java:3158)
at org.springframework.core.type.classreading.AnnotationAttributesReadingVisitor.doVisitEnd(AnnotationAttributesReadingVisitor.java:269)
at org.springframework.core.type.classreading.RecursiveAnnotationAttributesVisitor.visitEnd(AnnotationAttributesReadingVisitor.java:182)
code

As with similar issues, it'd be great to know which class was being introspected when the failure occurred

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Affects: 4.0.7, 4.1.1

Issue Links:

• java.lang.ArrayStoreException: sun.reflect.annotation.TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy exception when annotation config not found needs to specify what class is not found [SPR-10441] #15074 java.lang.ArrayStoreException: sun.reflect.annotation.TypeNotPresentExceptionProxy exception when annotation config not found needs to specify what class is not found
• AnnotationUtils provides poor diagnostics if getDeclaredAnnotations throws an exception [SPR-12325] #16930 AnnotationUtils provides poor diagnostics if getDeclaredAnnotations throws an exception
• Useless exception message when annotations can't be parsed [SPR-12507] #17112 Useless exception message when annotations can't be parsed
• Improve diagnostics when AnnotationJmxAttributeSource triggers an ArrayStoreException from Class.getAnnotation [SPR-12572] #17173 Improve diagnostics when AnnotationJmxAttributeSource triggers an ArrayStoreException from Class.getAnnotation

Referenced from: commits 91940f2, b70c5d1

Backported to: 4.0.8