ReflectiveAttribute only works for public Members about cqengine HOT 4 CLOSED

Fixed. This has also been included in CQEngine 1.1.0, now released which should 
sync to Maven central in the next few hours. 

great :)

I am not quite sure why you opted for the approach of only using 
getDeclaredFields if an Exception is thrown.

The only reason that I can come up with is that getDeclaredFields does not 
iterate up the Class hierarchy.

You will find that most models in java have private members, so using an 
exception to handle this is very expensive.

If you want to make sure that you can access all members even up the class 
hierarchy I would do this manually, I have included a patch that includes a 
utility class witch will handle this.

Yes the approach was to not break existing support for inherited fields, 
limited as it was.

I've re-implemented it, released as CQEngine 1.1.1. It should support private 
fields in superclasses now too.

BTW this code has no bearing on query performance, it's just initialization of 
the attribute. The field is cached thereafter. I think there are fewer object 
allocations via the getField + catch exception approach, than via getFields() 
so I stuck with that approach, although I haven't benchmarked it. 

Hopefully this will accommodate most use cases.