Re: About the syntheticPublic property of member method node in class

[Jochen Theodorou]

On 01.04.2016 17:50, daniel_sun wrote:
Hi List,
       The following code is copied from GinA2, which we use to test the new
parser for Groovy.

class Book {
     private String title
     Book (String theTitle) {
         title = theTitle
     }
     String getTitle(){
         return title
     }
}

       I have a question about the syntheticPublic of "getTitle" method node,
which has no visibility modifier(e.g. public, protected, private), so I
think its "public" should be synthetic and expect syntheticPublic  is true,
but the old parser of Groovy set syntheticPublic  as false.  (related issue
url: https://github.com/jespersm/groovy/issues/19).

      Can you tell me the rationale about syntheticPublic and synthetic of
MethodNode?

If you set those bean property methods to synthetic, IDEs will not offer 
them anymore in auto-completion. I too was of the opinion synthetic 
means "added by the compiler", but I see it now more as a "internal 
method, not for the user". So all those mop methods we have/had or 
rightfully synthetic, but bean methods like the setTitle one above does 
not fall in this second category. getTitle is a method added by the user 
and user-added methods should never be synthetic. And yes, no visibility 
modifier means public.

bye Jochen