[GROOVY-11212] Access to private fields of superclass from a block fails in subclass

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 4.x
• Fix Version/s: 5.0.0-alpha-1
• Component/s: Compiler
• Assignee: Eric Milles
• Reporter: OC
• Created: 02/Nov/23 01:59
• Updated: 22/Dec/23 11:38
• Resolved: 02/Nov/23 13:30

Description

Test code:

class Foo {
  private static final String wth='wth'
  def foo() {
    1.times {
      println wth
    }
  }
}
class Bar extends Foo { }
new Bar().foo() 

Causes “groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: wth for class: Bar”. Seems to affect all 4* versions (myself I've tested just a couple of them), did work in 3 and I am told it again works in 5.

There's an easy work-around, an explicit qualifier, in this case "println Foo.wth", fixes the problem.