[GROOVY-10136] [JDK16] Failed to find `public` method derived from `package` super class

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0
• Assignee: Daniel Sun
• Reporter: Daniel Sun
• Created: 13/Jun/21 11:22
• Updated: 30/Apr/23 14:29
• Resolved: 13/May/22 18:31

Description

The public setLength() is defined in java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder, whose visibility is package, the following error happened if accessing setLength() via java.lang.StringBuilder, which is derived from java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder

TraitsSpecificationTest > testStackableTraits FAILED
    groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: java.lang.StringBuilder.setLength() is applicable for argument types: (Integer) values: [0]
    Possible solutions: setLength(int), length()
        at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ScriptBytecodeAdapter.unwrap(ScriptBytecodeAdapter.java:70)
        at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PojoMetaClassSite.call(PojoMetaClassSite.java:47)
        at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCall(CallSiteArray.java:47)
        at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:125)
        at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.call(AbstractCallSite.java:139)
        at TraitsSpecificationTest$PrintCategory.reset(TraitsSpecificationTest.groovy:838)
        at org.codehaus.groovy.vmplugin.v8.IndyInterface.fromCache(IndyInterface.java:318)

Issue Links

• relates to: GROOVY-10429 StringBuilder misses setLength method in Java17
• relates to: GROOVY-10594 Unable to Call StringBuilder.substring() method (JDK17, Groovy 3)
• relates to: GROOVY-11035 Inferred type is Object when having a complex inheritance chain of interfaces