[GROOVY-7994] Anonymous inner class believes protected method in parent's superclass returns Object

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.7
• Fix Version/s: 2.4.8
• Component/s: groovy-runtime
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: James Kleeh
• Created: 08/Nov/16 14:12
• Updated: 21/Oct/23 16:04
• Resolved: 16/Nov/16 16:27

Description

The below will execute the constructor on `Other` that takes an `Object`, even though `getName()` returns a `String`.

import groovy.transform.CompileStatic

@CompileStatic
class Parent {
    protected String getName() {
        "sally"
    }
}

@CompileStatic
class Child extends Parent {

    Inner doSomething() {
        return new Inner() {
            void go() {
                new Other(name)
            }
        }
    }

}

@CompileStatic
class Other {
    Other(Object object) {
        println "called with other"
    }
    Other(String string) {
        println "called with string"
    }
}

@CompileStatic
abstract class Inner {
    abstract void go()
}

Inner inner = new Child().doSomething()
inner.go()

Issue Links

• relates to: GROOVY-11198 access to public static variable forbidden in enum
• relates to: GROOVY-11199 inner class cannot set property of enclosing class that has a getter without a setter
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #459