ComputeIfAbsentAmbiguousReference
computeIfAbsent passes the map key to the provided class's constructor

Severity
ERROR

The problem

With ambiguous constructor references used in java.util.Map#computeIfAbsent function parameter, it becomes unclear what the code intends to do.

map.computeIfAbsent(someLong, AtomicLong::new).incrementAndGet()

Code of this form can seemingly look like it’s trying to make a counter, creating the key if absent. Unfortunately the code is surprising, because it will call the wrong AtomicLong constructor. Instead, it will create the counter initialized with the key value, which is probably not desired.

Suppression

Suppress false positives by adding the suppression annotation @SuppressWarnings("ComputeIfAbsentAmbiguousReference") to the enclosing element.