Hello Other Groovy Devs & Eric Miles I thought an email will be a better way to communicate intent with this ticket I raised
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-11670 This is my current setup - I have a bunch of java files, all of which work fine when compiled with JavaC - Lets say one file is named aLowerCaseClassName.java and it has a function build() that returns a new instance of aLowerCaseClassName - Lets say another file uses this class and has a method customBuild() that also returns a new instance of aLowerCaseClassName I am trying to compile all these files with Groovy (to apply AST transformations) and I see these problems - both build methods will cause a parsing error as detailed in the jira ticket - errors go away if I just rename the class starting with a capital letter. But this is not an option as I cannot change the Java code, so I have to do something as part of the groovy compile process Eric, you suggested in the ticket that I can use import aliasing, I want to understand this better - I assume the lower case class name is a problem only for return types? Will this work for other places? (generics, parameter types, field names etc) - I assume that I will have to do this import aliasing in every file where I use this class name - I will then have to change all class type uses in that file to use the uppercase class name (if it's just return types, then should I just change that?) - I also assume that this change will have to be done before the groovy compiler gets a hold of this file? I assume probably through a string reader source that I create for the file after some regex replacements maybe? Are my assumptions right? Are there simpler ways to fix this on my side? regards Saravanan
