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Bug 100470

Summary:	Refactor out a set of packages into a new plug-in
Product:	[Eclipse Project] PDE	Reporter:	Xavier Méhaut <xavier.mehaut>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	PDE-UI-Inbox <pde-ui-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	caniszczyk, curtis.windatt.public, davymeers, jeffmcaffer, martinae, mn, wassim.melhem
Version:	3.1	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Xavier Méhaut

2005-06-16 16:16:10 EDT

hello,
I would like to suggest the following refactoring  feature on PDE/JDT...
The idea is for instance to select some packgaes or folders in a project and to
choose the menu option "move to new project..."...
Once selected, the folder/packages chosen will be placed into a new PDE project
created at this occasion... 
This feature will help grandly the refactoring of a project into smaller parts
for instance...
regards
Xavier

Comment 1 Olivier Thomann

2006-10-06 15:43:48 EDT

Moving to JDT/UI

Comment 2 Chris Aniszczyk

2006-11-06 20:41:21 EST

I think we can add something like a refactor action, "Componentize" (or something as cheesy).

Encouraging people to further componetize their plug-ins is a good thing (tm).

Thoughts?

Comment 3 Jeff McAffer

2006-11-06 20:47:05 EST

Does JDT already have a "take this stuff and put it in a different project" refactoring?  Seems like this would be related except the destination would be a (potentially new) plugin project.

overall this feels like an interesting item

Comment 4 Wassim Melhem

2006-11-06 23:04:54 EST

Martin, seeing that JDT is a platform and all, can we plug into whatever you already have?

Comment 5 Martin Aeschlimann

2006-11-07 04:11:12 EST

That would be 'move package' or 'move CU' which we already have, but only by user interaction.

For 3.3 we want to add new API so that all refactorings can also be used programatically. 
org.eclipse.jdt.core.refactoring.descriptors.MoveDescriptor is already there as stub, but it's not yet implemented. Planed for M5.

Comment 6 Jeff McAffer

2006-11-07 16:29:37 EST

seems like this is might be requesting moving the packages into a NEW plugin project no?

Comment 7 Chris Aniszczyk

2007-09-05 17:41:00 EDT

(In reply to comment #5)

Martin, did the API make it in for M5?

Comment 8 Martin Aeschlimann

2007-09-06 03:45:48 EDT

Yes, have a look at org.eclipse.jdt.core.refactoring.descriptors.MoveDescriptor in  jdt.core.manipulation.

- Create and configure the descriptor.
- Get the refactoring from the descriptor
- execute the refactoring to get the change
- execute the change

see org.eclipse.jdt.ui.tests.refactoring.RefactoringTest.performRefactoring(RefactoringDescriptor, boolean)
(in jdt.ui.tests.refactoring)

Comment 9 Lars Vogel

2019-11-14 03:21:15 EST

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