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A. Masson
A. Masson

Reputation: 2477

Detect shadowed java bean property

Is there an easy way (idealy existing helper library) to detect shadowed attributes of a java bean given it has multiple level of hierarchy?

[C] extends [B] extends [A]. Then attribute [A].firstName is defined.

I want to detect beans where [C].firstName is redefined (which is likely a developer error) inside a generic jUnit test so this kind of "hard to find bug" is catched by the build process.

Note: in Eclispe IDE this is equivalent to "Field declaration hides another field or variable" under Java/Compiler/Errors/Name shadowing and conflicts.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 84

Answers (1)

adamreeve
adamreeve

Reputation: 386

Typically you wouldn't put this in a unit test, rather you'd put something like Checkstyle in your integration build process which will flag the same issue.

Upvotes: 2

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