[🐛 Bug]: ``JsonToWebElementConverter`` can't be properly extended

[AB-xdev]

Description

I'm currently trying to override

selenium/java/src/org/openqa/selenium/remote/JsonToWebElementConverter.java

Lines 80 to 90 in 31ffb78

	protected RemoteWebElement newRemoteWebElement() {
	return setOwner(new RemoteWebElement());
	}
	private RemoteWebElement setOwner(RemoteWebElement element) {
	if (driver != null) {
	element.setParent(driver);
	element.setFileDetector(driver.getFileDetector());
	}
	return element;
	}

however this is not properly possible because setOwner and other fields/methods are private

Reproducible Code

N/A

[selenium-ci]

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[diemol]

Why is this a bug? Can you give more context of what you are trying to do?

[AB-xdev]

Why is this a bug?

Well it's more like a small code change, although I'm not completely sure if it's a feature or bug but I can only choose from those two issue templates so I took the first.

Can you give more context of what you are trying to do?

I'm trying to use a modified version of RemoteWebElement which has some enhancements.
To make the RemoteWebDriver use this version I have to use a custom JsonToWebElementConverter which leads to this issue.

PS: Currently I'm using the reflection "crowbar" to make it work, however compile-time safety would be better :)