Building a project with Java record types fails with error: unexpected identifier 'record'

[neilg]

Description of the problem / feature request:

Building a project with Java record types fails with error: unexpected identifier 'record' if a target depends on the target with record types. That is, if consumer depends on records then the build fails, however, if the dependency is removed then the build succeeds.

Bugs: what's the simplest, easiest way to reproduce this bug? Please provide a minimal example if possible.

A project demonstrating the build failure is available: https://github.com/neilg/bazel-records
The main branch fails to build, the working branch builds.

What operating system are you running Bazel on?

Linux pinot 5.13.13-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu, 26 Aug 2021 19:14:36 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

What's the output of bazel info release?

release 5.0.0-pre.20210824.2

If bazel info release returns "development version" or "(@non-git)", tell us how you built Bazel.

n/a

What's the output of git remote get-url origin ; git rev-parse master ; git rev-parse HEAD ?

n/a

Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?

• StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/bazel
• GitHub issues: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues
• email threads on https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bazel-discuss

Nothing in any of these places.

Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?

No

[eikemeier]

As a workaround, you can use build --nojava_header_compilation, see https://github.com/melsicon/value-comparison

[comius]

cc @cushon, ijar will probably need to support new constructs in newer Java versions