Dumb question. I declare a property in an abstract class as

protected var counter: Int

, which is naturally visible in the implementation classes, but not outside. If I try to access protected member from "outside", I get

Can not access 'counter': it is protected in ...

compilation error. This is in Kotlin-only code. However from Java I can see all the protected members as well and can access

getCounter()

and

setCounter()

. Seems like a strange behavior to me and I couldn't fine anything in the docs.

Are you subclassing from Java?

1. No. 2. yes 🤦‍♂️

BTW, if you want to guard from Java callers using the same package name, you can try the

@JvmSynthetic

annotation.

But then you don't allow Java subclasses either.

You don't allow access to this field/property/method from Java, yes.