[aspectj-users] AJ Internal Compiler Error

[Alexandru Popescu <the.mindstorm.mailinglist@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

Disclaimer: I am still facing problems accessing Bugzilla, so the following might already have been 
reported.

Consider the following:

[code]
package bar;

public class TargetITDClass {}


package foo;

import bar.TargetClass;

public aspect ITDWithACall {
    public void TargetClass.doSomething(String param) {
        String changedParam= changeParam(param);
    }

    <modifiers> String changeParam(String param) { /// <= HERE
        return param + "-modified";
    }
}

[/code]

So when changing the modifiers of the changeParam() method the following behavior is seen:

1/ non-static modifier: correctly reported that you cannot make a static reference to the non-static 
method changeParam

2/ public static modifiers: everything works as expected

3/ !public (anything else than public) static modifiers: results in the following exception:

[stack]
java.lang.NullPointerException
at 
org.aspectj.org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.MessageSend.manageSyntheticAccessIfNecessary(MessageSend.java:230)
at org.aspectj.org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.MessageSend.analyseCode(MessageSend.java:60)
at 
org.aspectj.org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.LocalDeclaration.analyseCode(LocalDeclaration.java:49)
at 
org.aspectj.org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.MethodDeclaration.analyseCode(MethodDeclaration.java:84)
at 
org.aspectj.ajdt.internal.compiler.ast.InterTypeMethodDeclaration.analyseCode(InterTypeMethodDeclaration.java:79)
at 
org.aspectj.org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.TypeDeclaration.internalAnalyseCode(TypeDeclaration.java:732)
at 
org.aspectj.org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.TypeDeclaration.analyseCode(TypeDeclaration.java:271)
at 
org.aspectj.org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.ast.CompilationUnitDeclaration.analyseCode(CompilationUnitDeclaration.java:80)
at org.aspectj.org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.Compiler.process(Compiler.java:517)
at org.aspectj.org.eclipse.jdt.internal.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:329)
at org.aspectj.ajdt.internal.core.builder.AjBuildManager.performCompilation(AjBuildManager.java:810)
at org.aspectj.ajdt.internal.core.builder.AjBuildManager.doBuild(AjBuildManager.java:254)
at org.aspectj.ajdt.internal.core.builder.AjBuildManager.incrementalBuild(AjBuildManager.java:163)
at org.aspectj.ajde.internal.CompilerAdapter.compile(CompilerAdapter.java:117)
at org.aspectj.ajde.internal.AspectJBuildManager$CompilerThread.run(AspectJBuildManager.java:191)

NullPointerException thrown: null
[/stack]

IMO this should result in a compilation error with the error changeParam is not accessible from the 
context (or something like this).

cheers,

./alex
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