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Pascal Schumacher resolved LANG-1195.
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Resolution: Fixed
Assignee: Pascal Schumacher
Pull request merged. Thanks!
> Enhance MethodUtils to allow invocation of private methods
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>
> Key: LANG-1195
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-1195
> Project: Commons Lang
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: lang.reflect.*
> Environment: not environment specific
> Reporter: Derek C. Ashmore
> Assignee: Pascal Schumacher
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 3.5
>
>
> Currently, MethodUtils is restricted to finding and invoking accessible
> methods. Frequently, developers have a need to test 'private' methods. What
> I see is that they escalate access to 'protected' in order to more easily
> provide test coverage for these methods. From a design perspective, this is
> bad.
> I propose to enhance MethodUtils so that it can easily invoke private
> methods. I'm not suggesting that developers should do this in production
> code, merely test code. Much as FieldUtils provides access to private fields
> via the 'forceAccess' overload on many of its methods. I've copied a utility
> like this around for years. It would be much more convenient to simply
> include it with Commons Lang. I propose adding the following overloads to
> existing methods on MethodUtils.
> {code}
> public static Object invokeMethod(final Object object, final boolean
> forceAccess, final String methodName)
> throws NoSuchMethodException, IllegalAccessException,
> InvocationTargetException
>
> public static Object invokeMethod(final Object object, final boolean
> forceAccess, final String methodName, Object... args)
> throws NoSuchMethodException, IllegalAccessException,
> InvocationTargetException
>
> public static Object invokeMethod(final Object object, final boolean
> forceAccess, final String methodName, Object[] args, Class<?>[]
> parameterTypes)
> throws NoSuchMethodException, IllegalAccessException,
> InvocationTargetException
> {code}
> Furthermore, I propose the following new method for finding private methods
> patterned after getAccessibleMatchingMethod:
> {code}
> public static Method getMatchingMethod(final Class<?> cls, final String
> methodName, final Class<?>... parameterTypes)
> {code}
> I have, in fact, forked your github repository and coded this enhancement as
> well as unit test coverage for this. I'll add a comment to this ticket once
> I get a branch in my fork created and the enhancement checked in. Every
> effort has been made to adhere to your coding conventions. Thanks for
> looking at this.
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