tutorial:accesswideners
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| tutorial:accesswideners [2020/06/15 05:53] – explain how to remap the access widener in Loom with custom task wornitskeyitem | tutorial:accesswideners [2020/06/22 14:13] – Clarify the circumstances where an access widener should and should not be used earthcomputer | ||
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| Access wideners provide a way to loosen the access limits of classes, methods or fields. Access wideners are similar to the commonly known Access Transformers. | Access wideners provide a way to loosen the access limits of classes, methods or fields. Access wideners are similar to the commonly known Access Transformers. | ||
| - | Access wideners should only be used where mixin does not currently provide a means to do so. | + | Access wideners should |
| + | There are currently only 2 cases where mixins are not sufficient: | ||
| + | * Needing to access a private class, especially for the purpose of shadowing or accessing a field or method in a mixin. | ||
| + | * Being able to override final methods or subclass final classes. | ||
| ===== Requirements ===== | ===== Requirements ===== | ||
tutorial/accesswideners.txt · Last modified: 2024/06/09 05:33 by haykam