Groovy Beans

Am I missing something?

The concept of automagic properties is nice, but not that useful because generated methods have same permission as fields. The point of a bean/properties is to provide encapsulation. Private fields do not generate access methods. Public fields should typically be avoided.

Doc at: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/GROOVY/Groovy+Beans

class One {
private int xyz
int abc
}

class Two {
private int xyz

int getXyz() {return xyz} // not created automatically for private
void setXyz(int x) {xyz=x} // not created automatically for private
}

def o=new One()
//o.setXyz(1111)// causes exception
o.setAbc(123)// works

def t=new Two()
t.setXyz(222)

Rob.

I think you may be misreading the example.

Groovy properties are declared vert much like fields but they result in private fields and public getters and setters.

I have made minor changes to the page and have corrected a couple of errors.

I hope you find it clearer now

Thanks for your help.

I got off track in an initial test because o.xyz worked. I forgot that it was accessible because of package permissions.

Rob.