tutorial:accesswideners
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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 (package) 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. | ||
| + | * Before you consider overriding final methods, try mixin injecting in final methods first! | ||
| + | * If you want to subclass a class with only (package) private constructors, | ||
| ===== Requirements ===== | ===== Requirements ===== | ||
tutorial/accesswideners.txt · Last modified: 2024/04/29 21:00 by ayutac