[GROOVY-5103] groovy compiler ignores import * for static nested classes in java sources

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.3
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0-alpha-1, 3.0.5, 2.5.17
• Component/s: Compiler
• Assignee: Eric Milles
• Reporter: Dave Clark
• Created: 26/Oct/11 16:45
• Updated: 19/Mar/22 13:49
• Resolved: 20/Jul/20 07:24

Description

(using Groovy 1.8.3, JVM 1.6.0_23 OpenJDK)

Given this class:

Foo.java

package org.test;

public class Foo {
    public static class Bar {
        String message;
        
        public Bar(String message) {
            this.message = message;
        }
    }
    public static class Cat {
        Integer amount;

        public Cat(Integer amount) {
            this.amount = amount;
        }
    }
}

Groovy code can import both of these static nested classes like this:

import static org.test.Foo.*

However, in Java they are imported like this:

import org.test.Foo.*;

Using the Groovy compiler to compile any Java files which do the above will result in the following error if any of the static nested classes are used:

App.java: 9: unable to resolve class Bar 
 @ line 9, column 13.
   		Bar bar = new Bar("Hello");

Is this expected? If so, is there a known workaround (or maybe I'm just doing it wrong...)?