JaCoCo inserts custom objects into all objects. Reflection finds these objects

[tylerbth...@gmail.com]

I've written a pretty printing library https://github.com/snowe2010/pretty-print,
and am trying to get code cov for it. As soon as I add jacoco, all my tests fail because reflection now finds extra `$jacocoData = boolean[]()` objects pretty much everywhere.

Is there any way around this, or will I just not be able to use jacoco?

[Evgeny Mandrikov]

Please read documentation, this is described in FAQ ( https://www.jacoco.org/jacoco/trunk/doc/faq.html ) :

My code uses reflection. Why does it fail when I execute it with JaCoCo?

To collect execution data JaCoCo instruments the classes under test which adds two members to the classes: A private static field $jacocoData and a private static method $jacocoInit(). Both members are marked as synthetic.

Please change your code to ignore synthetic members. This is a good practice anyways as also the Java compiler creates synthetic members in certain situation.

[tylerbth...@gmail.com]

Thank you Evgeny, I thought I had read the FAQ, but apparently not.