[jira] [Created] (GROOVY-12237) CheckingVisitor.findTargetVariable is now a protected instance method (was public static)

["Paul King (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Paul King created GROOVY-12237:
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             Summary: CheckingVisitor.findTargetVariable is now a protected instance method (was public static) 
                 Key: GROOVY-12237
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-12237
             Project: Groovy
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Paul King
            Assignee: Paul King
             Fix For: 6.0.0-alpha-1


commit ed63edb33f
As part of general cleanup in commit ed63edb33f, org.apache.groovy.typecheckers.CheckingVisitor#findTargetVariable changed from implicitly-public static to protected instance, aligning it with the rest of the class's protected, subclass-facing design. Binary-incompatible for third-party checkers compiled against 5.x (invokestatic → NoSuchMethodError); source-compatible for subclasses calling it unqualified, source-incompatible for external callers using CheckingVisitor.findTargetVariable(...). No shim is possible (a static and instance method with the same signature cannot coexist). Note groovy-typecheckers was incubating in 5.x, so this is migration guidance rather than a broken guarantee. Recompile against 6.x; external (non-subclass) callers should inline the small lookup themselves.



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