[GROOVY-3073] Private inheritance bug: Closure accessing private method

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.6
• Component/s: class generator
• Environment: Windows XP SP 2; Eclipse 3.3 & groovy-all-1.5.6.jar
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Raoul Becke
• Created: 04/Oct/08 02:17
• Updated: 03/Jan/22 00:17

Description

Even the inheritance is correct - the following sample returns a:

Exception in thread "main" groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: test.Child.parentMethodB() is applicable for argument types: () values: {}

Parent.java

package test
public class Parent{
	private String parentMethodB(){
		return "parentMethodB";
	}
	protected String parentMethodC(){
		def closure={
				return parentMethodB()}
		return closure()
	}
}

Child.java

package test
public class Child extends Parent{
	public static void main(def args){
		Child c = new Child();
		println(c.parentMethodC())
	}	
}

Issue Links

• depends upon: GROOVY-2503 MOP 2.0 design inflluencing issues
• depends upon: GROOVY-3010 fix private field visibility
• is duplicated by: GROOVY-2565 Exception with inheritance and private method calls from a closure
• is related to: GROOVY-2433 Closure in base class unable to call private methods when invoked from derived class
• is related to: GROOVY-5438 Private field inaccessible in closure when using a subclass
• relates to: GROOVY-3142 Unable to access inherited private fields from a closure within an inherited method