Bug 20559

Comment 1 Dirk Baeumer 2002-07-30 09:06:08 EDT

There are plans under investigation to provide
- a formatter that sorts methods
- dnd in outliner to rearrange members

There are no plans to alphabetize inserted methods since other users would like 
to see other insert strategies (for example a getter together with a setter).

Tagged as help wanted.

Comment 2 Randy Hudson 2002-07-30 09:26:03 EDT

People requesting other sorting methods are wrong.  Alphabetized sorting of 
methods is the standard.  It is the only sorting recognized by JavaDOC, and the 
only sorting recognized by the JDT's outline page.  Why has JDT decided to 
recognize this sorting in the Outline, but not in the code manipulation 
infrastructure?

The current code formatter does not work like I want.  I never invoke it 
because it indents members of the CU's primary Type.  See bug 10859.  So, this 
formatter would have to only alphabetize methods, and not mangle whitespace for 
me to use it.

One potential problem would be that inserting methods in various locations in 
the CU would be hard to find.  One solution to this which I have previously 
requested is the ability to insert a Marker generated from the source, in this 
case the inserted method skeleton.  For example:

public void setFoo(int foo){
    //$TODO Implement setFoo(int)
}

Thus, the override methods dialog would result in several new markers telling 
the user to implement the inserted methods.  The user could use the TaskList to 
navigate to the new methods (please ignore the fact that currently the TaskList 
is not suited for this task or any other ;-).

Comment 3 Erich Gamma 2003-02-20 08:38:30 EST

we are now supporting to sort methods - no further action is planned on this bug

Comment 4 Randy Hudson 2003-02-20 10:21:31 EST

There will be no preference setting to invoke sort implicitly when override is 
invoked??

A new preference is probably undersirable, but what about auto-detecting the 
fact that the current type is sorted, and invoking sort based on the result of 
that test?

Thanks.

Comment 5 Erich Gamma 2003-02-20 10:28:55 EST

What we intend to do is to insert all generated methods according to the order 
as defined in Preferences>Java>Appearance>Member sort order

(obviously this will then no longer be an appearance option only).

However, this is unlikely to happen for 2.1