[BEANUTILS-265] Allow access to non public class's public methods from a public sub-classes

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.0
• Component/s: Bean / Property Utils
• Assignee: Niall Pemberton
• Reporter: Tom Schindl
• Created: 23/Nov/06 09:28
• Updated: 26/Jul/09 07:04
• Resolved: 20/Aug/08 02:11

Description

Currently BeanUtils doesn't provide the possibility to access getters and setters in classes who are package-scoped!
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class HiddenBean {
private String a;

protected HiddenBean() {

}

public void setA(String a)

{ this.a = a; }

public String getA()

{ return this.a; }

}

public class PublicBean extends HiddenBean {

}
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Issue Links

• is duplicated by: BEANUTILS-316 getAccessibleMethod returns null when method is declared in a package-private class but used through a bublic subclass