[LUCENE-6923] Fix RamUsageEstimator's access to private fields

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.5, 6.0
• Lucene Fields: New
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Robert Muir
• Created: 05/Dec/15 15:44
• Updated: 28/Aug/22 14:46
• Resolved: 06/Dec/15 18:22

Description

many classes have in their clinit something like:

static final int BASE_SIZE = RamUsageEstimator.shallowSizeOf(...)

This does inspection of private fields to compute the size, but requires RuntimePermission("accessDeclaredMembers").