non-static fields should not be treated as static properties

Paul King added a comment - 09/Oct/07 6:21 PM Hi Gents, I placed a try catch around the offending piece of code. This hides the problem rather than solving the root cause. I didn't have time to investigate any further. At least we have a workaround and test in place now and we can tighten the noose around the real bug (and avoid the expensive of the exception) when we find time.

Alex Tkachman added a comment - 18/Nov/07 2:51 PM I prefer to postpone this issue till 1.2 or even till we rewrite of meta class. Following code shows that many things goes differently than expected. package org.codehaus.groovy.classgen class StaticPropertyTest extends GroovyTestCase{ void testStaticProperty () { // U.class.getName () call assertEquals "U" , U.getName() // should fail because getU () is private assertEquals "U" , new U ().u // should fail because getU () is private assertEquals "U" , new U ().getU() // should call U.class.getName () because 'name' is private in U assertEquals "org.codehaus.groovy.classgen.U" , U.name assertEquals "U" , U.testPrivate() } } class U { private static def name = "U" static def testPrivate () { return U.name } private static def getName () { "U" } private def getU () { "U" } }