From 75b7fd38cdbdde4910e5fa6d4d022d40fe9d4602 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Abdullah <89297042+AzazelSensei@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:35:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Skip synthetic and bridge methods in contract parsing

Covariant overrides generate unannotated bridge methods that
BaseContract previously tried to parse, failing inheritance tests
such as overrideParameterizedApiSupported.

Fixes #2752
---
 core/src/main/java/feign/Contract.java | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/core/src/main/java/feign/Contract.java b/core/src/main/java/feign/Contract.java
index 516272f45a..3501993c6a 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/feign/Contract.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/feign/Contract.java
@@ -60,7 +60,9 @@ public List<MethodMetadata> parseAndValidateMetadata(Class<?> targetType) {
         if (method.getDeclaringClass() == Object.class
             || (method.getModifiers() & Modifier.STATIC) != 0
             || Util.isDefault(method)
-            || method.isAnnotationPresent(FeignIgnore.class)) {
+            || method.isAnnotationPresent(FeignIgnore.class)
+            || method.isSynthetic()
+            || method.isBridge()) {
           continue;
         }
         final MethodMetadata metadata = parseAndValidateMetadata(targetType, method);