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Bug 366723

Summary:	[xtend2] bogus error message: "Missing parentheses for calling method"
Product:	[Modeling] TMF	Reporter:	Stephan Herrmann <stephan.herrmann>
Component:	Xtext	Assignee:	Project Inbox <tmf.xtext-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	sven.efftinge
Version:	2.1.1	Flags:	sven.efftinge: juno+
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Stephan Herrmann

2011-12-14 11:19:41 EST

In version 2.0 of Xtend2 I could write
  obj.attribute()
to invoke the Java getter getAttribute()
in 2.1.1 the validator complains
  "Missing parentheses for calling method"

If that message were right I would fix the problem by adding what's missing.
By contrast *removing* the parens fixes the problem.
The following two appear to be legal in 2.1.1:
  obj.attribute
  obj.getAttribute()

I haven't checked if this incompatible change in the validator has been
documented in the help / migration guide, but a better error message
would already help :)

Comment 1 Sven Efftinge

2013-09-16 12:58:19 EDT

The message is now that the method 'attribute()' doesn't exist.

Comment 2 Eclipse Webmaster

2017-10-31 11:25:15 EDT

Requested via bug 522520.

-M.