Bug 370159

Summary:	FieldSignatureImpl.getField returns null
Product:	[Tools] AspectJ	Reporter:	Jean-Pierre Bergamin <james>
Component:	Runtime	Assignee:	aspectj inbox <aspectj-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	1.6.12
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
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Description Jean-Pierre Bergamin

2012-01-30 15:03:02 EST

FieldSignatureImpl.getField returns null in some cases.
I set a breakpoint in line 58 of FieldSignatureImpl.java that states:
  field = getDeclaringType().getDeclaredField(getName());

I can see in the debugger, that the "name" member of FieldSignatureImpl is set correctly to the name of the field I'm requesting. When I now step into the getDeclaredField() method, the passed string that is returned from getName() is null *or* sometimes set to the name of the class of the FieldSignatureImpl.declaredType member.

A sample application that shows this can be found here: https://github.com/ractive/sdn-aspect

The addFriend() test in PersonTests.java fails with a NullPointerException, because the returned field is null.