[GROOVY-6460] Static method not found when called from within closure in child class

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.7, 2.2.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.0-beta-4
• Component/s: groovy-runtime
• Assignee: Jochen Theodorou
• Reporter: Kevin Tunstall
• Created: 29/Nov/13 03:48
• Updated: 17/Dec/14 13:25
• Resolved: 25/Oct/14 03:08

Description

As of groovy 2.1.7, a static method is not found when it is called from within a closure in a child class.

Example:

class Superclass {
    static SuperclassStaticMethod() {
        return "A"
    }
}

class Closureclass extends Superclass {
    static closuremethod = {
        return "B" + SuperclassStaticMethod() // this should be found
    }
}

assert Closureclass.closuremethod() == "BA"

Before groovy 2.1.7, this would work fine. As of groovy 2.1.7, including 2.2.1, this will result in a:

groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: Closureclass$_clinit_closure1.SuperclassStaticMethod() is applicable for argument types: () values: []
at Closureclass$_clinit_closure1.doCall(closureSimple.groovy:9)
at Closureclass$_clinit_closure1.doCall(closureSimple.groovy)
at closureSimple.run(closureSimple.groovy:13)

I suspect https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GROOVY-5261 (Fix Version/s: 2.1.7, 2.2.0-beta-2) may be a cause.