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Benedikt Ritter commented on LANG-965:
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The problem is with the getField method, which is used by read/writeField
methods. When calling getField with forceAccess = true, the user of the method
does not know whether accessibility of the Field has been changed. Simply
calling setAccessible(false) doesn't work because the field may have been
accessible before. So the user cannot restore the accessibility to it's initial
state. That is why I was think of some kind of callback, so that FieldUtils can
restore accessibility after handing the field to the user.
> FieldUtils methods leak accessible flags
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> Key: LANG-965
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG-965
> Project: Commons Lang
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: lang.reflect.*
> Affects Versions: 3.1, 3.2.1
> Environment: Apache Maven 3.1.1
> (0728685237757ffbf44136acec0402957f723d9a; 2013-09-17 11:22:22-0400)
> Maven home: C:\Java\apache-maven-3.1.1\bin\..
> Java version: 1.7.0_51, vendor: Oracle Corporation
> Java home: C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_51\jre
> Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: Cp1252
> OS name: "windows 7", version: "6.1", arch: "amd64", family: "windows"
> Reporter: Gary Gregory
> Assignee: Benedikt Ritter
> Fix For: Patch Needed
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> Attachments: commons-lang-965.patch, commons-lang-965.patch
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> When various FieldUtils methods are called the accessible is set to true but
> never reset to false. This is side-effect should be cleaned up.
> This makes a mess of the object model which represents the class meta data.
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