[GROOVY-1318] Add compiler warning for imported classes that can no be found on the classpath

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-JSR-5
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-JSR-6
• Component/s: command line processing
• Assignee: Jochen Theodorou
• Reporter: Peter Ledbrook
• Created: 07/May/06 04:28
• Updated: 15/Jun/06 16:16
• Resolved: 15/Jun/06 16:16

Description

It would be useful for the groovy compiler to generate a warning if an imported class can not be found on the classpath. In particular this would help diagnose the following problem:

import java.util.Date
import org.groovyco.IsoDateFormat

class SomeClass {
    def doSomething() {
        // ...
        IsoDateFormat.format(new Date())
    }
}

If IsoDateFormat is not available on the classpath at compile time, the above class will compile fine, but it will fail at runtime with a "MissingPropertyException: IsoDateFormat".