[jira] [Created] (GROOVY-10007) Breaking change in property resolution 2.4 -> 3.0

["Jochen Eddelbuettel (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Jochen Eddelbuettel created GROOVY-10007:
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             Summary: Breaking change in property resolution 2.4 -> 3.0
                 Key: GROOVY-10007
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-10007
             Project: Groovy
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Compiler
    Affects Versions: 3.0.7, 3.0.5
         Environment: OpenJDK 11, IdeaC 2020.3.3
            Reporter: Jochen Eddelbuettel


I've created a library utilizing propertyMissing. By convention, it expects property names to be running against camel casing conventions (starting with a single upper case letter), to avoid conflicts with actual properties (bean style, with getters).

In Groovy 2.4 a call of obj.Owner would not be resolved to obj.getOwner(). Only obj.owner would be equivalent to obj.getOwner(). In Groovy 3.0 obj.Owner results in a call to obj.getOwner() as well. As a result, no call to propertyMissing for "Owner" occurs any more. Thus properties that used to be resolved by metaprogramming, can now result in actual method calls, which can potentially have a huge impact on the behavior of existing code.

I've looked back into the 3.0.0 release notes and there is no mention of this being a breaking change.

This script, who assertions were jolly fine in 2.4.15, should behave the same in 3.0.x:
{code:java}
import groovy.json.JsonSlurper
JsonSlurper.metaClass.propertyMissing = { String name -> name }
def slurp = new JsonSlurper()
slurp.maxSizeForInMemory = 500000
assert slurp.maxSizeForInMemory == 500000
assert slurp.MaxSizeForInMemory == "MaxSizeForInMemory"
{code}
Interestingly, this is not a problem for setters, which suggests to me that the change is unintended behaviour get getters and should be fixed. It is a problem with @CompileStatic too. obj.Owner statically compiles to obj.getOwner().



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