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DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.7.2.4
Covariant Conversions (CoCo): A Design Pattern for Type-Safe Modular Software Evolution in Object-Oriented Systems (Artifact)

Authors: Jan Bessai, George T. Heineman, and Boris Düdder

Published in: DARTS, Volume 7, Issue 2, Special Issue of the 35th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2021)

Abstract
This artifact contains code illustrating the Covariant Conversions (CoCo) design pattern in Java, Scala, and C#. The CoCo pattern shows how to solve the expression problem in modern object-oriented languages without the need for language extensions. It structures code so that adding new classes and new methods is possible without changes to existing implementations. The artifact is a live image of a Linux machine for archival purposes. It allows to boot into an environment which has an IDE installed to inspect the code. Build infrastructure to compile, run, test, and benchmark the code without internet access is also included.
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Jan Bessai, George T. Heineman, and Boris Düdder. Covariant Conversions (CoCo): A Design Pattern for Type-Safe Modular Software Evolution in Object-Oriented Systems (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 35th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2021). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 7, Issue 2, pp. 4:1-4:4, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@Article{bessai_et_al:DARTS.7.2.4,
  author =	{Bessai, Jan and Heineman, George T. and D\"{u}dder, Boris},
  title =	{{Covariant Conversions (CoCo): A Design Pattern for Type-Safe Modular Software Evolution in Object-Oriented Systems (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{4:1--4:4},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{7},
  number =	{2},
  editor =	{Bessai, Jan and Heineman, George T. and D\"{u}dder, Boris},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.7.2.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-140287},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.7.2.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: Expression problem, software evolution, type safety, producer method, binary method}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2021.4
Covariant Conversions (CoCo): A Design Pattern for Type-Safe Modular Software Evolution in Object-Oriented Systems

Authors: Jan Bessai, George T. Heineman, and Boris Düdder

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 194, 35th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2021)

Abstract
Software evolution is an essential challenge for all software engineers, typically addressed solely using code versioning systems and language-specific code analysis tools. Most versioning systems view the evolution of a system as a directed acyclic graph of steps, with independent branches that could be merged. What these systems fail to provide is the ability to ensure stable APIs or that each subsequent evolution represents a cohesive extension yielding a valid system. Modular software evolution ensures that APIs remain stable, which is achieved by ensuring that only additional methods, fields, and data types are added, while treating existing modules through blackbox interfaces. Even with these restrictions, it must be possible to add new variations, fields, and methods without extensive duplication of prior module code. In contrast to most literature, our focus is on ensuring modular software evolution using mainstream object-oriented programming languages, instead of resorting to novel language extensions. We present a novel CoCo design pattern that supports type-safe covariantly overridden convert methods to transform earlier data type instances into their newest evolutionary representation to access operations that had been added later. CoCo supports both binary methods and producer methods. We validate and contrast our approach using a well-known compiler construction case study that other researchers have also investigated for modular evolution. Our resulting implementation relies on less boilerplate code, is completely type-safe, and allows clients to use normal object-oriented calling conventions. We also compare CoCo with existing approaches to the Expression Problem. We conclude by discussing how CoCo could change the direction of currently proposed Java language extensions to support closed-world assumptions about data types, as borrowed from functional programming.
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Jan Bessai, George T. Heineman, and Boris Düdder. Covariant Conversions (CoCo): A Design Pattern for Type-Safe Modular Software Evolution in Object-Oriented Systems. In 35th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 194, pp. 4:1-4:25, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)

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@InProceedings{bessai_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2021.4,
  author =	{Bessai, Jan and Heineman, George T. and D\"{u}dder, Boris},
  title =	{{Covariant Conversions (CoCo): A Design Pattern for Type-Safe Modular Software Evolution in Object-Oriented Systems}},
  booktitle =	{35th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2021)},
  pages =	{4:1--4:25},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-190-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{194},
  editor =	{M{\o}ller, Anders and Sridharan, Manu},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2021.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-140476},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2021.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: Expression problem, software evolution, type safety, producer method, binary method}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.TLCA.2015.76
Mixin Composition Synthesis Based on Intersection Types

Authors: Jan Bessai, Andrej Dudenhefner, Boris Düdder, Tzu-Chun Chen, Ugo de’Liguoro, and Jakob Rehof

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 38, 13th International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications (TLCA 2015)

Abstract
We present a method for synthesizing compositions of mixins using type inhabitation in intersection types. First, recursively defined classes and mixins, which are functions over classes, are expressed as terms in a lambda calculus with records. Intersection types with records and record-merge are used to assign meaningful types to these terms without resorting to recursive types. Second, typed terms are translated to a repository of typed combinators. We show a relation between record types with record-merge and intersection types with constructors. This relation is used to prove soundness and partial completeness of the translation with respect to mixin composition synthesis. Furthermore, we demonstrate how a translated repository and goal type can be used as input to an existing framework for composition synthesis in bounded combinatory logic via type inhabitation. The computed result corresponds to a mixin composition typed by the goal type.
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Jan Bessai, Andrej Dudenhefner, Boris Düdder, Tzu-Chun Chen, Ugo de’Liguoro, and Jakob Rehof. Mixin Composition Synthesis Based on Intersection Types. In 13th International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications (TLCA 2015). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 38, pp. 76-91, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)

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@InProceedings{bessai_et_al:LIPIcs.TLCA.2015.76,
  author =	{Bessai, Jan and Dudenhefner, Andrej and D\"{u}dder, Boris and Chen, Tzu-Chun and de’Liguoro, Ugo and Rehof, Jakob},
  title =	{{Mixin Composition Synthesis Based on Intersection Types}},
  booktitle =	{13th International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications (TLCA 2015)},
  pages =	{76--91},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-87-3},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{38},
  editor =	{Altenkirch, Thorsten},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.TLCA.2015.76},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-51563},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.TLCA.2015.76},
  annote =	{Keywords: Record Calculus, Combinatory Logic, Type Inhabitation, Mixin, Intersection Type}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2012.243
Bounded Combinatory Logic

Authors: Boris Düdder, Moritz Martens, Jakob Rehof, and Pawel Urzyczyn

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 16, Computer Science Logic (CSL'12) - 26th International Workshop/21st Annual Conference of the EACSL (2012)

Abstract
In combinatory logic one usually assumes a fixed set of basic combinators (axiom schemes), usually K and S. In this setting the set of provable formulas (inhabited types) is PSPACE-complete in simple types and undecidable in intersection types. When arbitrary sets of axiom schemes are considered, the inhabitation problem is undecidable even in simple types (this is known as Linial-Post theorem). k-bounded combinatory logic with intersection types arises from combinatory logic by imposing the bound k on the depth of types (formulae) which may be substituted for type variables in axiom schemes. We consider the inhabitation (provability) problem for k-bounded combinatory logic: Given an arbitrary set of typed combinators and a type tau, is there a combinatory term of type tau in k-bounded combinatory logic? Our main result is that the problem is (k+2)-EXPTIME complete for k-bounded combinatory logic with intersection types, for every fixed k (and hence non-elementary when k is a parameter). We also show that the problem is EXPTIME-complete for simple types, for all k. Theoretically, our results give new insight into the expressive power of intersection types. From an application perspective, our results are useful as a foundation for composition synthesis based on combinatory logic.
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Boris Düdder, Moritz Martens, Jakob Rehof, and Pawel Urzyczyn. Bounded Combinatory Logic. In Computer Science Logic (CSL'12) - 26th International Workshop/21st Annual Conference of the EACSL. Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 16, pp. 243-258, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2012)

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@InProceedings{dudder_et_al:LIPIcs.CSL.2012.243,
  author =	{D\"{u}dder, Boris and Martens, Moritz and Rehof, Jakob and Urzyczyn, Pawel},
  title =	{{Bounded Combinatory Logic}},
  booktitle =	{Computer Science Logic (CSL'12) - 26th International Workshop/21st Annual Conference of the EACSL},
  pages =	{243--258},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-42-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2012},
  volume =	{16},
  editor =	{C\'{e}gielski, Patrick and Durand, Arnaud},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2012.243},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-36763},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.CSL.2012.243},
  annote =	{Keywords: Intersection types, Inhabitation, Composition synthesis}
}
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