Java classes with non-visible constructors should not be constructible
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Key: JRUBY-3102
URL: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JRUBY-3102
Project: JRuby
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Charles Oliver Nutter
Assignee: Thomas E Enebo
Fix For: JRuby 1.1.5
An issue was brought up on IRC where a method with a private constructor
appeared to successfully construct. What actually happened was that the
superclass's __jcreate method was invoked during the initialization process. So
ultimately we ended up with a Ruby wrapper object that claimed it was the type
in question, but it wrapped an instance of the base class (in this case
java.lang.Object).
The correct behavior is that classes with private or package-visible
constructors should fail to construct, and as with other protected methods,
protected constructor classes should be accessible (since we can't currently
distinguish between in-hierarchy callers and extra-hierarchy callers).
I've made the changes locally, and will commit after filing the bug.
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