I am having a strange bug in IntelliJ where I have a base class that has a protected member which I am accessing in the constructor of a derived class several inheritance levels deeper, i.e. something like this (except that there are more layers in between but the structure is the same):

public class Base {

    ...
    protected boolean fieldX;

    public Base() {
        fieldX = false;
    }

    ... <code that uses fieldX here> ...
}

public class Derived1 extends Base {
    ...
}

public class Derived2 extends Derived1 {

    public Derived2() {
        super();
        this.fieldX = true;
    }
    ...
}

The bug manifests in that IntelliJ colors the member (here fieldX) in red and the error message when hovering over it reads:

cannot resolve symbol fieldX

However, I can build and run the project just fine.

I also tried declaring the fieldX as public in order to get rid of the error highlighting but that didn’t change anything. Of course, trying to create a minimal reproducer didn’t work either. Here the fieldX was always resolvable – as it should be and as one would expect!

Any idea why IntelliJ (or actually AndroidStudio Koala) stumbles over this??? Anything cached that one could erase?

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