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Bug 348319

Summary:

[content assist] function overloading not supported

Product:

[WebTools] JSDT

Reporter:

Philippe Marschall <philippe.marschall>

Component:

General

Assignee:

Project Inbox <jsdt.javascript-inbox>

Status:

NEW ---

QA Contact:

Chris Jaun <cmjaun>

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

Version:

3.3

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

All

OS:

All

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
function overlading using JSDoc	none
function overloading repeating the function	none

Description Philippe Marschall

2011-06-05 07:37:39 EDT

While JavaScript does not support overloading a function like Java it is possible to call a function with different numbers of arguments or types. The function can then perform introspection and decide what to do. Several JavaScript libraries use this to implement setters and getters. If a function is called without and argument it acts as a getter. If it's called with an argument it acts as a setter.

JSDoc has a native way to support this http://code.google.com/p/jsdoc-toolkit/issues/detail?id=157 an other option imaginable would be to simply repeat the function several times.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a JavaScript library with one of the attached files
2. type jQuery("a") and hit Ctrl+Space

Expected Behavior
You get two "text" functions in the completion proposal, one with an argument, one without.

Actual Behavior
You only get one "text" function in the completion proposal.

Comment 1 Philippe Marschall

2011-06-05 07:38:37 EDT

Created attachment 197356 [details]
function overlading using JSDoc

Comment 2 Philippe Marschall

2011-06-05 07:39:18 EDT

Created attachment 197357 [details]
function overloading repeating the function