Hi Jorg, actually I have already done: it doesn't work (but I could be wrong).
So to recap, writing a private field works, a final one don't. IMHO adding a method that allows to write a static final field makes sense to me, WDYT? Maurizio Cucchiara On 22 November 2013 16:01, Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@scalaris.com> wrote: > Hi Maurizio, > > Maurizio Cucchiara wrote: > >> So do I, but looking at the throws list it seems that final is not >> supported (although write a private one is) by design (which can be a >> valid point) > > Try it. The documentation might be a simple relict from Java 1.4 > functionality. > > Cheers, > Jörg > >> >> Maurizio Cucchiara >> >> >> On 22 November 2013 13:37, Matt Benson <gudnabr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hmm, I would have expected [1] (with terminating argument true) to have >>> worked for your purposes. >>> >>> Matt >>> [1] >>> http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/javadocs/api-3.1/org/apache/commons/lang3/reflect/FieldUtils.html#writeStaticField(java.lang.Class, >>> java.lang.String, java.lang.Object, boolean) >>> On Nov 22, 2013 3:49 AM, "Maurizio Cucchiara" <mcucchi...@apache.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> yesterday I was trying to write a static final field in order to mock >>>> it and I realised that there is no way to do that using the Common >>>> way. >>>> >>>> I expected to find something similar on FieldUtils class [1]. >>>> >>>> I know that is not a very good practice and in case of primitive field >>>> or enabled security manager it is unlikely that works. >>>> >>>> But it seems a common pattern, so why do not include in Lang? >>>> >>>> Maurizio Cucchiara >>>> >>>> [1] >>>> http://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-lang/javadocs/api-3.1/org/apache/commons/lang3/reflect/FieldUtils.html >>>> >>>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org >>>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org >>>> >>>> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org