ReflectiveMethodResolver lets local static methods override java.lang.Class methods

Issue: SPR-13918

spring-expression/src/main/java/org/springframework/expression/spel/support/ReflectiveMethodResolver.java

@@ -221,14 +221,15 @@ public class ReflectiveMethodResolver implements MethodResolver {
 	private Collection<Method> getMethods(Class<?> type, Object targetObject) {
 		if (targetObject instanceof Class) {
 			Set<Method> result = new LinkedHashSet<Method>();
-			result.addAll(Arrays.asList(getMethods(targetObject.getClass())));
-			// Add these also so that static result are invocable on the type: e.g. Float.valueOf(..)
+			// Add these so that static methods are invocable on the type: e.g. Float.valueOf(..)
 			Method[] methods = getMethods(type);
 			for (Method method : methods) {
 				if (Modifier.isStatic(method.getModifiers())) {
 					result.add(method);
 				}
 			}
+			// Also expose methods from java.lang.Class itself
+			result.addAll(Arrays.asList(getMethods(Class.class)));
 			return result;
 		}
 		else {

spring-expression/src/test/java/org/springframework/expression/spel/SpelReproTests.java

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ package org.springframework.expression.spel;
 import java.lang.reflect.Array;
 import java.lang.reflect.Field;
 import java.lang.reflect.Method;
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Collection;
@@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
 import org.junit.Rule;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.rules.ExpectedException;
+
 import org.springframework.core.MethodParameter;
 import org.springframework.core.convert.TypeDescriptor;
 import org.springframework.expression.AccessException;
@@ -2080,6 +2082,17 @@ public class SpelReproTests extends AbstractExpressionTests {
 		assertEquals("{X=66}", result.toString());
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	public void SPR13918() {
+		EvaluationContext context = new StandardEvaluationContext();
+		context.setVariable("encoding", "UTF-8");
+
+		Expression ex = parser.parseExpression("T(java.nio.charset.Charset).forName(#encoding)");
+		Object result = ex.getValue(context);
+		assertEquals(Charset.forName("UTF-8"), result);
+	}
+
+
 	public static class ListOf {
 
 		private final double value;
@@ -2093,6 +2106,7 @@ public class SpelReproTests extends AbstractExpressionTests {
 		}
 	}
 
+
 	public static class BeanClass {
 
 		private final List<ListOf> list;