Bug 351336

Description Klaus Reimer 2011-07-06 10:31:58 EDT

Build Identifier: I20110613-1736

I'd like to enable JavaScript validation for my JavaScript projects which are compiled with Google's Closure Compiler (Via Ant). My code is fully typed (With Closure Compiler @type annotations). Eclipse currently doesn't support more advanced closure compiler type annotations and maybe it never will, that's ok for me. It reports a "Type mismatch: cannot convert from B to A" for this code:

  function A() {}

  function B() {}

  /**
   * @return {A|B}
   */
  function test()
  {
      return new B();
  }

As I said, the error message is correct because Eclipse doesn't support closure compiler. My request is simply to add a simple checkbox into the JavaScript validation settings to disable type checking (Or disable this warning). Looks like everything else can be disabled so it would be nice if this specific warning could also be disabled.

Sure, it would be even nicer if Eclipse would support the advanced Closure Compiler type annotations and type casts but for now it would be enough to be able to disable type checking so I can use the other useful validations in Eclipse.

Reproducible: Always