Changes in access of variables for generic classes in Java 7

Question

Here is a simple example of some code that compiles using Java 6, but does not compile in Java 7.

public class Test {

  private final         


        

Answer 1

A workaround for this is to cast the generic instance to the concrete supertype that declares the private field, e.g.

public int get(TestContainer container){
  T t = container.get();
  return ((Test) t)._myVar;
}