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...internal.Iterables is used in Asserts generated by assertj-assertions-generator (java9)

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Estimated time
3-5 days
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Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by inspecting the assertion generation path that produces imports of org.assertj.core.internal.Iterables, then reproduce the generated-code compilation failure in a Java 9+ modular project. Done means generated assertions no longer depend on the non-exported internal class and compile successfully on Java 9 and later.

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Hi,
I am migrating from java 8 to 17 and had big trouble getting the generated assertions to work (actually is does not work at all, is it dead?)

But even with great hacks I cannot get arround that the generated code imports the internal class org.assertj.core.internal.Iterables which is (of course) not exported by assertj-core. Could this become public? Or could the code-generator be updated? Which btw has medium CVEs in it's dependencies.

Example
import org.assertj.core.internal.Iterables;
//this is part of the generated code
public YAssert hasXs(X... xs) {
    // check that actual Y we want to make assertions on is not null.
    isNotNull();

    // check that given X varargs is not null.
    if (x== null) failWithMessage("Expecting x parameter not to be null.");

    // check with standard error message, to set another message call: info.overridingErrorMessage("my error message");
    Iterables.instance().assertContains(info, actual.getX(), xs);

    // return the current assertion for method chaining
    return this;
  }

Package 'org.assertj.core.internal' is declared in module 'org.assertj.core', which does not export it to module 'my.assertions'

In other words: Is does not compile in Java > 8 which renders the complete code generation useless.

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