Internal fields names

Dear all,
I am trying to inject a private field with reflection, in a test suite. I have discovered that the name of the field has changed compared to the one I have declared.


Namely the following:


  private var active = false;
  @Autowired
  private var gigaSpace: GigaSpace = _;

become:

com$gottex$gottware$datafeeds$mocks$MockRealTimeConnector$$gigaSpace

while active stays the same when I inspect the Fields[] collection.

Why does it happen? Should I not rely anymore on fields name for doing reflection in my tests?

Best Regards

Edmondo

Exactly true.  If it's a var you can inject with the "foo_$eq" method.  See the scala-mojo-support project for a working inject example for plexus.

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Edmondo Porcu <edmondo.porcu@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear all,
I am trying to inject a private field with reflection, in a test suite. I have discovered that the name of the field has changed compared to the one I have declared.


Namely the following:


  private var active = false;
  @Autowired
  private var gigaSpace: GigaSpace = _;

become:

com$gottex$gottware$datafeeds$mocks$MockRealTimeConnector$$gigaSpace

while active stays the same when I inspect the Fields[] collection.

Why does it happen? Should I not rely anymore on fields name for doing reflection in my tests?

I'm pretty sure that field names are an implementation detail and aren't guaranteed in the Scala Spec.  

Best Regards

Edmondo

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