[GROOVY-6647] static compilation fails at runtime for calling private constructor

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.0-beta-1, 2.2.3
• Component/s: Static compilation
• Assignee: Jochen Theodorou
• Reporter: Jochen Theodorou
• Created: 01/Apr/14 08:29
• Updated: 05/Apr/14 00:00
• Resolved: 01/Apr/14 08:52

Description

class Foo{
  private Foo(){}
}
@CompileStatic
class Bar {
  def foo(){new Foo()}
}

This fails with
java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access method Foo.<init>()V from class Bar

The reason is that @TypeChecked makes no accessiblity check, but @CompileStatic needs that. In case of methods it fails, because StaticInvocationWriter is doing the check. Better would be to check during method selection already, because another accessible member might be missed otherwise (see GROOVY-6632 for this)

Issue Links

• is related to: GROOVY-6632 CompileStatic selects wrong constructor when GString is a parameter