[GROOVY-683] Can't assign to native types in Groovy Beans

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-beta-8
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-beta-9
• Environment: Windows XP Pro under Cygwin
• Assignee: Guillaume Sauthier
• Reporter: Martin C. Martin
• Created: 20/Dec/04 16:28
• Updated: 18/Sep/05 14:41
• Resolved: 10/Jan/05 16:22

Description

If I create a GroovyBean with a "float" field then try to assign to it, I get an error:

/cygdrive/c/Develop> groovysh
Lets get Groovy!
================
Version: 1.0-beta-8 JVM: 1.4.2_06-b03
Type 'exit' to terminate the shell
Type 'help' for command help
Type 'go' to execute the statements

groovy> class Foo

{ float x }

groovy> y = new Foo()
groovy> println y.x
groovy> go
null # How is this possible???

groovy> y.x = 10
groovy> go
Exception: No such property: x for class: Foo. Reason: groovy.lang.GroovyRuntimeException: Cannot set property: x reason: null
groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: x for class: Foo. Reason: groovy.lang.GroovyRuntimeException: Cannot set pro
ull
at groovy.lang.MetaClass.setProperty(MetaClass.java:996)
....

No such property: x for class: Foo. Reason: groovy.lang.GroovyRuntimeException: Cannot set property: x reason: null

If Groovy Beans can't take native types, only their object wrappers, then I should get an error in the class definition, no?

• Martin