Description Jeremie Bresson 2013-02-07 12:13:10 EST

The current implementation of getDeclaredPublicMethods(Class) filter nonpublic methods by replacing them with null.

There is no indication of this behavior and this is not what a consumer of this method would expect.

For this class:

  public static class MyBean {
    public Long getId() {
      return null;
    }

    private void myMethod() {
    }

    public void setId(Long id) {
    }

  }


The expected result is
[
    public void MyBean.getId(),
    public void MyBean setId()
]

And not (current implemtation):
[
    public void MyBean.getId(),
    null,
    public void MyBean setId()
]


There is no guarantee that the SDK do not add some additional private methods. 

I had a case with a private method added by test coverage tool). The array length was no longer as expected in my test.