[GROOVY-912] Setting protected field using named arguments in constructor silently fails

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0-JSR-2
• Fix Version/s: 1.1-beta-1
• Environment: Java 1.5.0_03 Windows XP
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Martin C. Martin
• Created: 21/Jun/05 06:57
• Updated: 03/Mar/07 04:20
• Resolved: 03/Mar/07 04:20

Description

The following code:

class Bubbles {
protected int x = 0;
public String toString()

{ ""+x }

}
def b = new Bubbles(x:5)
println b

prints 0, not 5. If x is changed to public, it works fine.

Unless I'm missing something, this should throw a run time error that you can't set the protected field/property.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: GROOVY-929 Setting private field in Bean constructor fails sliently