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Joe
Joe

Reputation: 49

Missing Property Exception

I am new to groovy and I made a java class that has some constansts.

public class test{
     public static final constant1 ="hello"
     }

now in my groovy code, I just want to put that constant in a map.

  Map<String, String> map1 = new HashMap();
  map1.put("hello", test.constant1);

I am getting a groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException error that says no such property: test for class.

What is this error saying?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1919

Answers (1)

mistahenry
mistahenry

Reputation: 8734

So oddly enough, groovy, unlike Java, has difficulty resolving a class name if it is lowercase. Relevant mailing list and this Jira.

Crux of the issue: Compiler related, specifically in producing a grammar that's not ambiguous since variable names, class names, and method names can all share the same context. Groovy seems to rely on the traditional Java convention of a class or type starting with an uppercase letter to reduce the ambiguity.

So capitalize that 't' in 'test' and you should be off to the races! What a silly bug

Upvotes: 1

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