[GROOVY-6260] "Possible solutions" message is confusing because it doesn't reflect whether a property is read-only or write-only

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.6
• Fix Version/s: 5.0.0-alpha-3
• Component/s: groovy-runtime
• Assignee: Eric Milles
• Reporter: Graeme Rocher
• Created: 16/Jul/13 09:04
• Updated: 22/Dec/23 11:38
• Resolved: 24/Nov/23 21:20

Description

Consider this:

class Foo {
  void setBar(String bar) {}
}

foo = new Foo()

println foo.bar

The message is

groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: bar for class: Foo
Possible solutions: bar

This is extremely confusing to users and I suggest that the message be changed to reflect that the property is write-only to avoid confusion

Issue Links

• is related to: GROOVY-8064 Confusing error message when trying to access a property which is actually a method