[GROOVY-5719] Private field not found in subclasses

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.2
• Component/s: groovy-runtime
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Dimitar Dimitrov
• Created: 21/Sep/12 05:30
• Updated: 25/Nov/13 08:59

Description

Consider the following snippet:

class A { private int a }
def a = new A()
a.@a=1 

class B extends A {}
def b = new B()
b.@a=1 // groovy.lang.MissingFieldException: No such field: a for class: B

I can understand why it happens, yet is there a reason for the MOP not to try a little harder and resolve to a field named 'a' in the closest parent?

Alternatively, would be nice to allow us to specify the type to be used by using casting:

((A)b).@a=1

See also: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Private-field-not-found-in-inherited-classes-td5711338.html