navigation between fields and accessors

This works around SI-5736 that's been deemed too risky to be fixed in 2.10.0.
A reflection newbie will be unlikely to acquire a field symbol from its name,
but the `accessed` method provides an easy way to navigate to it from a getter.

2 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/test/files/run/reflection-fieldsymbol-navigation.check b/test/files/run/reflection-fieldsymbol-navigation.check
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..79f0928ea5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/files/run/reflection-fieldsymbol-navigation.check
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+method x

+false

+variable x

+true

+method x

+method x_=

diff --git a/test/files/run/reflection-fieldsymbol-navigation.scala b/test/files/run/reflection-fieldsymbol-navigation.scala
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..da4612a564
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/files/run/reflection-fieldsymbol-navigation.scala
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+import scala.reflect.runtime.universe._
+
+class C {
+  var x = 2
+}
+
+object Test extends App {
+  val x = typeOf[C].member(newTermName("x")).asTerm
+  println(x)
+  println(x.isVariable)
+  println(x.accessed)
+  println(x.accessed.asTerm.isVariable)
+  println(x.getter)
+  println(x.setter)
+}
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