This project is a reproducer for the following issue: Given a Clojure function which references a class, if that class has a static field with an initializer which fails when run, the function will fail to compile because the compiler (needlessly) runs the initializer even if the respective field is not accessed.
See repro.fail namespace for an example. Here, the bar function references the
io.netty.handler.codec.compression.BrotliOptions class. That class has a package-private static
field named
DEFAULT
with an initializer. That initializer depends on a class which is provided by an optional
third-party library. However, even though bar never references that field, the initializer gets
run and fails because that library is not present.
Run it like this:
$ clojure -M -m repro.fail
Execution error (ClassNotFoundException) at jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader/loadClass (BuiltinClassLoader.java:641).
com.aayushatharva.brotli4j.encoder.Encoder$Parameters
The issue can be worked around by putting the class value into a separate def and using that in
the function instead. See repro.ok. Run it like this:
$ clojure -M -m repro.ok
io.netty.handler.codec.compression.BrotliOptions
The issue was encountered in the context of clj-commons/aleph#703