Metamodel lookup for non-local top-level object throws NPE

[akberc]

Not sure whether it belongs in the language or compiler module. Given the following in a module:

object obj {
    shared String version = `obj`.declaration.containingModule.version;
}

shared void run() {
    print(obj.version);   
}

Error stack:

ceylon run: null
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at com.redhat.ceylon.compiler.java.runtime.metamodel.Metamodel.getProducedType(Metamodel.java:245)
    at com.redhat.ceylon.compiler.java.runtime.metamodel.Metamodel.checkReifiedTypeArgument(Metamodel.java:1405)
    at com.redhat.ceylon.compiler.java.runtime.metamodel.FreeValue.apply(FreeValue.java:95)
    at test.obj_.<init>(run.ceylon:3)
    at test.obj_.<clinit>(run.ceylon:3)
    at test.run_.run(run.ceylon:8)
    at test.run_.main(run.ceylon)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

[tombentley]

This was a compiler bug. The value of the object was computed eagerly in a static block which occurs before the initialization of the $TypeDescriptor$, thus the $TypeDescriptor$ is null at the point obj is instantiated.

Thanks for reporting.

[akberc]

Thank you for fixing. This was just a regression.