Widget class cannot be in Groovy

[aznime]

Description

When creating a widget, code must be in Java. An illegal access exception is thrown if it is coded in Groovy.

Environment

• java client build version or git revision if you use some shapshot: 3.3.0
• Appium server version or git revision you is use some shapshot: 1.14.16
• Desktop OS/version used to run Appium if necessary: OSX El Capitan (10.11.1)
• Node.js version (unless using Appium.app|exe) or Appium CLI or Appium.app|exe: 0.12.7
• Mobile platform/version under test: iOS 9.2
• Real device or emulator/simulator: Simulator

Exception stacktraces

https://gist.github.com/aznime/54263754d2a312ffb1bc

[TikhomirovSergey]

@aznime
Could you share a gist with code of this class?
com.jumbo.shared.widgets.PlayWidget

It looks like a bug but I don't know how to reproduce it. Java client widget tests use objects with protected constructors and private/protected fields which are populated and everything is ok.

[TikhomirovSergey]

@aznime
Also.
How should I check it? Have you a Groovy project?

[aznime]

Sorry for the late reply. I was trying to create a demo project for this purpose.

You can find it here: https://github.com/aznime/jumbo-mobile-tests

[TikhomirovSergey]

@aznime
Thank you. I've started to search for the root cause of the error.

[TikhomirovSergey]

@aznime
Ok. It seems I know the root cause. I think that cglib and reflection are not used properly at some cases and I'm going to fix it.

As a workaround I can advice you to change class modifiers to public.

public class UICatalogWidget extends Widget {
...
}

Can you do it and send a message about the result.

[aznime]

@TikhomirovSergey
I got the same exception after explicitly using the public modifier.

[TikhomirovSergey]

@aznime
The fix is going to be included at 3.4.1 very soon!