Re: [aspectj-users] Accessing private members from advice

[Johan Haleby <haleby@xxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure if this is what you mean but you can always access private 
state using reflection. Something like

Field myPrivateField = 
ClassWithPrivateField.class.getDeclaredMethod("myPrivateFeildName");
myPrivateField.setAccessible(true);
Object result = myPrivateField.get(myInstanceOfClassWithPrivateMethod);

Of course this is not type-safe so if you refactor the field-name you'll 
have to update the advice as well.

/Johan

Cosmin Mogos wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to access private members of class from an advice that 
> is in another package?
>
> I have a class in package a and I want to create an aspect in package 
> a.test that adds a getState function to the class in package a. For 
> that I wold need access to some private/protected members that I wold 
> not like to make public (or add getters).
>
> This aspect wold be used only for testing purposes so I don't want to 
> put it in package a to get access to protected members.
>
> Thanks,
> Cosmin Mogos
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