gen-class supports both static methods and protected vars.

http://kotka.de/blog/2010/02/gen-class_how_it_works_and_how_to_use_it.html
http://clojure.github.com/clojure/clojure.core-api.html#clojure.core/gen-class

(see :exposes in the second for protected access).

Jonathan

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 8:53 PM, martin_clausen <martin.clau...@gmail.com>wrote:

> I am using the otherwise nice java-libpst (
> http://code.google.com/p/java-libpst/) library to extract data from .pst
> files produced by Outlook for further processing in Clojure.
>
> Unfortunately the method (
> http://code.google.com/p/java-libpst/source/browse/trunk/com/pff/PSTMessage.java#860)
> that reads which categories a mail is "tagged" with, is broken. So my first
> thought is of course to fix this using Clojure, but this has turned out to
> be harder said than done. I have looked into proxy, which turned out to be
> a dead end (if I am not mistaken), as the objects representing a mail
> message must be produced using a static factory method.
>
> Any hints on how to implement the broken method (
> http://code.google.com/p/java-libpst/source/browse/trunk/com/pff/PSTMessage.java#860)
> greatly appreciated. Please note that the Clojure function  replacing the
> broken method must be able to access several protected fields within the
> Java class.
>
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