Description Misko Hevery 2006-04-06 17:11:04 EDT

I get this error:
The type com.abc.HtmlPowerTable$Column.Property cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class files

Well the problem is that inner inner class is defined like this:
com.abc.HtmlPowerTable$Column$Property (notice the second $$ not $.)

package com.abc;
class HtmlPowerTable{
  class Column{
    class Property{
    }
  }
}

This is an intermittent error. Whenever it happens forcing a recompile will cause it usually to go away. I was never able to reproduce it on a simple test case. It is almost as if the compiler has some cache and when it overflows (on a large project) the cache miss causes the class to be reloaded with a wrong name.

Sorry I can't seem to be able to provide an example which will fail on a small project or consistently. :-(