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Bug 348492

Summary:	[1.7] Improve error msg on strings in switch in 1.5 mode
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Deepak Azad <deepakazad>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Ayushman Jain <amj87.iitr>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	amj87.iitr, markus.kell.r, srikanth_sankaran
Version:	3.7
Target Milestone:	3.7.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Deepak Azad

2011-06-06 23:40:31 EDT

In the following snippet with 1.5 the compiler does not say anything about using 1.7 level, while javac does. 

- I think this is needed for consistency, as for other 1.7 features the error message informs the user that the feature is available in source level 1.7 or greater.
- In JDT UI we can then provide a quick fix to change compiler compliance to 1.7 (see bug 348459)

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    void foo(String s) {
        switch (s) {
        case "abc":
            System.out.println("abcd");
            break;
        case "xyz":
            System.out.println("xyz");
            break;
        }
    }
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Comment 1 Deepak Azad

2011-06-07 00:07:02 EDT

See also bug 348493.

Comment 2 Ayushman Jain

2011-06-07 05:31:26 EDT

Fixed in BETA_JAVA7 branch

Comment 3 Srikanth Sankaran

2011-06-28 05:03:54 EDT

Verified using "Eclipse Java Development Tools Patch for Java 7 Support (BETA)	1.0.0.v20110623-0900	org.eclipse.jdt.patch.feature.group	Eclipse.org"