[Mono-list] Reflection of non-public fields

[colin at breame.net]

Ah yes - good point.

Thanks.

On Fri, 30 Jun 2006 00:07:57 +0200, "Kornél Pál" <kornelpal at gmail.com>
said:
> This is an instance field so you should use
> GetFields(BindingFlags.NonPublic 
> | BindingFlags.Instance).
> 
> The field is not removed, that's why you get the warning so that the 
> compiler warns you that you should probably remove the field if you are
> sure 
> that you don't need it. You can check the presence of the field using
> tools 
> like monodis, ildasm or Reflector.
> 
> Kornél
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <colin at breame.net>
> To: <mono-list at lists.ximian.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 11:56 PM
> Subject: [Mono-list] Reflection of non-public fields
> 
> 
> > I'm not entirely sure I've got this right so I thought I'd run it past
> > "the list" before I created a bug report.
> >
> > On running [1] I would expect to see "Hello World" but no output is
> > produced.  When I compile I see a couple of warnings about the fields
> > not being used - is the compiler being clever here and removing the
> > fields entirely?
> >
> > -- Colin
> >
> > [1]:
> > using System;
> > using System.Reflection;
> > public class test_t {
> >  private string Hello;
> >  private string World;
> >  public static void Main() {
> >    foreach (FieldInfo fi in
> >             typeof(test_t).GetFields(BindingFlags.NonPublic)) {
> >      Console.Write("{0} ", fi.Name);
> >    }
> >    Console.WriteLine();
> >  }
> > }
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