[GROOVY-2487] Strange behavior of category support

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.8
• Component/s: groovy-jdk
• Environment: Windows XP SP2
• Assignee: Jochen Theodorou
• Reporter: Ke Zhu
• Created: 09/Jan/08 21:43
• Updated: 13/Oct/08 10:28
• Resolved: 13/Oct/08 10:28

Description

static method in sub category class could not override that in super category class.

More information to recreate the problem
****************************************************
TestBaseCategory .java
****************************************************
package zero.assemble.flow.util;
public class TestBaseCategory {

public static void test(Object str)

{ System.out.println("test() in TestBaseCategory"); }

}

****************************************************
TestCategory.java
****************************************************
package zero.assemble.flow.util;
public class TestCategory extends TestBaseCategory{
public static void test(Object str)

{ System.out.println("test() in TestCategory"); }

}

****************************************************
test.groovy
****************************************************
use (zero.assemble.flow.util.TestCategory) {
"abc".test()
}

In the system console, it should show the "test() in TestCategory", but it show
"test() in TestBaseCategory",
When our debug the code, we found the
org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.metaclass.NewMetaMethod#getDeclaringClass() could
not return correct class.