[GROOVY-7812] Static inner classes cannot be accessed from other files when running by 'groovy' command

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.6
• Fix Version/s: 2.5.6, 3.0.0-beta-1
• Component/s: Compiler
• Assignee: Daniel Sun
• Reporter: Nikolay Chashnikov
• Created: 08/Apr/16 07:50
• Updated: 21/Feb/19 06:18
• Resolved: 16/Jan/19 14:49

Description

Create the following files

Outer.groovy

class Outer {
  static class Inner {
  }
}

Main.groovy

println new Outer()
println new Outer.Inner()

and run 'groovy Main.groovy'. It'll fail with the following message:

org.codehaus.groovy.control.MultipleCompilationErrorsException: startup failed:
/home/.../Main.groovy: 2: unable to resolve class Outer.Inner
@ line 2, column 9.
println new Outer.Inner()

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: GROOVY-7990 inner classes not found in scripts
• relates to: GROOVY-4287 CLONE - import of static nested classes in external groovy files is broken
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #853