Re: [aspectj-users] Visibility of inter-type members with @DeclareMixin

[Matthew Adams <matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bug filed.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=288282

Thanks,
Matthew

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Matthew Adams<matthew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> It is a bit of a leaky abstraction.  It is worth making an
>> enhancement request for AspectJ.
>>
> Ok, will do.
>
>>  Is the problem only with content
>> assist, or are there other places that you see the introduced fields
>> and methods appearing?  Andy will get back to you on it when he
>> returns.
>>
> Really, that's it.  The issues that I'm concerned about are:
>
> 1. Fear factor.
> Let's face it, introducing introduction to a dev team can be scary,
> and when a member of the team hits dot in the IDE and sees all kinds
> of incredibly long "ajc$..." fields & methods, they kind of freak out.
>  If they only saw conventionally-named java methods when using the
> public interface of the class, it easy to achieve adoption.
>
> 2. Encapsulation.
> When introducing fields, they end up public in the class, which means
> that anyone could set them, bypassing the business logic governing the
> setting of their values.  I think this is a rarer use case, because
> most people on a dev team tend to be cooperative and not malicious,
> but the fact remains that public fields on classes are very rare.
>
> Again, I'm primarily concerned with AspectJ's obfuscation of the
> **public** interface of the class.  Once you can see the soft
> underbelly of a class (other classes in the same package, subclasses,
> etc), I say anything goes.  You're under the hood at that point.
>
> Thanks,
> Matthew
>
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