Why is the default access modifier in JUnit 5 package-private? It’s not the “default”. There technically is no default. Rather, in JUnit Jupiter you have a choice: public, protected or package-private. What is the benefit of changing it to package-private? The benefit is that you don’t have type public anymore. If your IDE automatically generates … Read more
Classes and methods marked with internal access modifier will work from within current versions of Kotlin, Gradle and also Intellij for accessing those methods from test classes. The tools consider the main and test source paths as part of the same module. Did you try this already? And if it failed you should report a … Read more
nested class – class defined within other class (includes static and non-static classes) inner class – non-static nested class (instance of inner class need instance of outer class to exist) non-nested (top level) classes Based on your question we know that constructor you want to access is not public. So your class may look like … Read more
The constructor actually isn’t package-private… it’s implicitly private the way interface methods are implicitly public even if you don’t add the keyword. The relevant section of the JLS (ยง8.8.3) states: If no access modifier is specified for the constructor of a normal class, the constructor has default access. If no access modifier is specified for … Read more
The short answer is – it’s a slightly wider form of private. I’ll assume that you’re familiar with the distinction between public and private, and why it’s generally good practice to make methods and variables private if they’re going to be used solely internally to the class in question. Well, as an extension to that … Read more
Yes, it’s almost the same. The protected modifier specifies that the member can only be accessed within its own package (as with package-private) and, in addition, by a subclass of its class in another package.