Shil Sinha created GROOVY-7862: ---------------------------------- Summary: Statically compiled calls to protected methods of an outerclass' superclass result in IllegalAccessErrors Key: GROOVY-7862 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-7862 Project: Groovy Issue Type: Bug Components: Static compilation Affects Versions: 2.4.7 Reporter: Shil Sinha
Example: {code} package one; public class Base { protected int foo() { 123 } } {code} {code} package two; class SubBase extends Base { class Inner { int test() { foo() } } int innerTest() { new Inner().test() } } assert new SubBase().innerTest() == 123 {code} The code above will fail with the following error: {code} java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access method one.Base.foo()I from class two.SubBase$Inner {code} This is due to bridge methods for protected methods not being correctly generated (and subsequently used when writing protected method invocations.) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)