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PreservedAnnotationTreeVisitor.visitNewArray wraps the element type in a single
array level, so for an array creation with an explicitly annotated element type and
two or more explicit dimensions, the computed type comes out with the wrong rank:

@Nullable Integer[][] x = new @Nullable Integer[3][4];
// [NullAway] incompatible types: @Nullable Integer [] cannot be converted to @Nullable Integer [] []

The @Nullable is preserved correctly; what is lost is a dimension.
NewArrayTree.getType() returns the element type of the innermost dimension only
(@Nullable Integer here), so a single wrap is correct only for one-dimensional
creations.

This has two visible effects. An assignment that should be legal is reported as an
error, and a genuine error such as

Integer[][] y = new @Nullable Integer[3][4];

is reported with a truncated type in the message (@Nullable Integer [] rather than
@Nullable Integer [] []).

Fix: wrap the element type once per array dimension of the type javac computed
for the whole creation expression that is not already present in the element type.
Deriving the count from javac's type rather than from NewArrayTree.getDimensions()
also handles the array-initializer form new @Nullable Integer[]{null}, which
reaches this visitor with an empty dimension list and must still produce a
one-dimensional array.

Only creations whose element type tree is an AnnotatedTypeTree reach this code (see
the guard in GenericsChecks). Forms such as new @Nullable Integer[3][] and
new @Nullable Integer[][]{} fold a bracket pair into the element type tree, so they
bypass this path, take javac's type directly, and were already correct.

Tests are added in JSpecifyArrayTests#multiDimensionalArraySubtypingWithNewExpression
covering the two- and three-dimensional cases, the corrected message on the true
positive, and the initializer form as a regression guard.

Relationship to #1150: this was found while investigating #1150 but does not fix
it. #1150 concerns covariant assignment at nested dimensions (e.g.
@Nullable Integer[][] x = someNonNullInteger2DArray), which lives in
GenericsChecks#subtypeParameterNullability and is untouched here. Merging this
first keeps that work from tripping over unrelated rank mismatches in its own test
cases. I plan to follow up with a fix for #1150 next, once this is merged.

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(deriving the dimension count from javac's computed type rather than from
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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved handling of nullable annotations in multidimensional array creation expressions.
    • Preserved array dimensions and element nullability more accurately during type analysis.
    • Correctly rejects assignments when arrays require non-null elements.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for multidimensional arrays and initialized single-dimensional arrays using JSpecify annotations.

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PreservedAnnotationTreeVisitor.visitNewArray wrapped the element type in a
single array level, so an array creation with an explicitly annotated element
type and two or more explicit dimensions produced a type with the wrong rank,
e.g. @nullable Integer[] for new @nullable Integer[3][4].

Wrap the element type once per array dimension of the type javac computed for
the whole creation expression that is not already present in the element type.
Deriving the count from javac's type rather than NewArrayTree.getDimensions()
also handles the array-initializer form new @nullable Integer[]{null}, which
reaches this visitor with an empty dimension list.
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Updated visitNewArray to preserve all array dimensions from javac’s computed type. Added JSpecify tests for nullable multidimensional arrays, invalid assignments to non-null array types, and initialized single-dimensional arrays.

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Thanks for this! Just a couple of comments below.

return new Type.ArrayType(elemType, castToNonNull(ASTHelpers.getType(tree)).tsym);
Type javacArrayType = castToNonNull(ASTHelpers.getType(tree));
Type result = elemType;
for (int i = arrayDimensionCount(elemType); i < arrayDimensionCount(javacArrayType); i++) {
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This code seems to handle the case where elemType is itself an ArrayType; is that really possible? According to the javadoc of this method, tree.getType() should give the type of the innermost dimension, which shouldn't be an array type. If that's in fact the case, this code can be simplified. In particular, arrayDimensionCount could have its parameter type as Type.ArrayType (I believe javacArrayType should always be an array type).

private static int arrayDimensionCount(Type type) {
int count = 0;
Type current = type;
while (current instanceof Type.ArrayType arrayType) {
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See comment above about simplifying by just making the parameter type Type.ArrayType

@Nullable Integer[][] x1 = new @Nullable Integer[3][4];
@Nullable Integer[][][] x2 = new @Nullable Integer[1][2][3];
// BUG: Diagnostic contains: incompatible types: @Nullable Integer [] [] cannot be converted to Integer [] []
Integer[][] x3 = new @Nullable Integer[3][4];
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Can we add a test that the reverse direction is allowed, i.e., that new Integer[3][4] can be assigned to an @Nullable Integer[][] variable (due to covariant array subtyping)?

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