Program: 36868
Project: 36868
Buggy source:
/** 
 * Produce a series of statements with side effects on <code>newInstance</code> so that the new instance becomes <em>equivalent</em> to <code>oldInstance</code>. In the specification of this method, we mean by equivalent that, after the method returns, the modified instance is indistinguishable from <code>newInstance</code> in the behavior of all methods in its public API. <p> The implementation typically achieves this goal by producing a series of "what happened" statements involving the <code>oldInstance</code> and its publicly available state. These statements are sent to the output stream using its <code>writeExpression</code> method which returns an expression involving elements in a cloned environment simulating the state of an input stream during reading. Each statement returned will have had all instances the old environment replaced with objects which exist in the new one. In particular, references to the target of these statements, which start out as references to <code>oldInstance</code> are returned as references to the <code>newInstance</code> instead. Executing these statements effects an incremental alignment of the state of the two objects as a series of modifications to the objects in the new environment. By the time the initialize method returns it should be impossible to tell the two instances apart by using their public APIs. Most importantly, the sequence of steps that were used to make these objects appear equivalent will have been recorded by the output stream and will form the actual output when the stream is flushed. <p> The default implementation, calls the <code>initialize</code> method of the type's superclass.
 * @param oldInstance The instance to be copied.
 * @param newInstance The instance that is to be modified.
 * @param out The stream to which any initialization statements should be written.
 * @throws NullPointerException if {@code out} is {@code null}
 */
protected void initialize(Class<?> type,Object oldInstance,Object newInstance,Encoder out){
  Class<?> superType=type.getSuperclass();
  PersistenceDelegate info=out.getPersistenceDelegate(superType);
  info.initialize(superType,oldInstance,newInstance,out);
}

Fixed version (ground truth):
/** 
 * Produce a series of statements with side effects on <code>newInstance</code> so that the new instance becomes <em>equivalent</em> to <code>oldInstance</code>. In the specification of this method, we mean by equivalent that, after the method returns, the modified instance is indistinguishable from <code>newInstance</code> in the behavior of all methods in its public API. <p> The implementation typically achieves this goal by producing a series of "what happened" statements involving the <code>oldInstance</code> and its publicly available state. These statements are sent to the output stream using its <code>writeExpression</code> method which returns an expression involving elements in a cloned environment simulating the state of an input stream during reading. Each statement returned will have had all instances the old environment replaced with objects which exist in the new one. In particular, references to the target of these statements, which start out as references to <code>oldInstance</code> are returned as references to the <code>newInstance</code> instead. Executing these statements effects an incremental alignment of the state of the two objects as a series of modifications to the objects in the new environment. By the time the initialize method returns it should be impossible to tell the two instances apart by using their public APIs. Most importantly, the sequence of steps that were used to make these objects appear equivalent will have been recorded by the output stream and will form the actual output when the stream is flushed. <p> The default implementation, calls the <code>initialize</code> method of the type's superclass.
 * @param type the type of the instances
 * @param oldInstance The instance to be copied.
 * @param newInstance The instance that is to be modified.
 * @param out The stream to which any initialization statements should be written.
 * @throws NullPointerException if {@code out} is {@code null}
 */
protected void initialize(Class<?> type,Object oldInstance,Object newInstance,Encoder out){
  Class<?> superType=type.getSuperclass();
  PersistenceDelegate info=out.getPersistenceDelegate(superType);
  info.initialize(superType,oldInstance,newInstance,out);
}