Local class PsiClass.getContainingClass() returns null? Is this a bug?

If the PSI follows the way the JVM does it, then "local" inner classes
(anonymous or not) are not members and thus don't have a containing
class. In that case it wouldn't be a bug.

Vince.

That's interesting, then, how come I can use private fields from "outer"
class of anonymous/local class? Why did they design the language this
way, do you know?

Vincent Mallet wrote:

If the PSI follows the way the JVM does it, then "local" inner classes
(anonymous or not) are not members and thus don't have a containing
class. In that case it wouldn't be a bug.

Vince.

The compiler generates an accessor class. $access$100 or something like that.

Even though they are not member of the class, they still have access
to the scope they were defined in (local variables of method and other
class members).

Here's another way to look at it. If you had:
class Foo {
public void foo() {
class Bar {
...
}
}
}

It wouldn't make sense to say "Foo.Bar" because Bar can only exist
within the scope of foo(), so it's really not a member of Foo. Even more
so with anonymous classes.

Vince.

getContainingClass() is a method inherited from PsiMember.
Only true inner classes are class members, aren't they?
Eugene.

"Keith Lea" <keith@cs.oswego.edu> wrote in message
news:d7jkas$5f3$2@is.intellij.net...

I have a class for which PsiUtil.isLocalClass(cls) returns true, and
cls.getContainingClass() returns null. Local classes are inner classes,
aren't they? They do have enclosing classes, don't they?

>

I'll use PsiTreeUtil.getParentOfType for now, but I want to know if this
is a bug or if I need to use getParentOfType for good.