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Bug 370692

Summary:	Extdoc: Provider for 'Static Hooks' that return a specific type
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Johannes Lerch <lerch>
Component:	Recommenders	Assignee:	Project inbox <recommenders-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5	CC:	kutschke.michael, sewe
Version:	unspecified	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Johannes Lerch

2012-02-06 04:52:19 EST

Motivated by your provider implementation that lists all 'Static Hooks' in a selected JavaElement (see https://twitter.com/#!/ide20/status/166435798202318848/photo/1/large) I want to propose a slightly different one:

Instead of listing all static methods in a type it would be nice to list all static methods that return a specific/selected type.

Example:
Assume IJavaElement is selected, then the provider should list the following:

org.eclipse.jdt.core.IJavaElement:
   org.eclipse.jdt.core.JavaCore.create(String)
   org.eclipse.jdt.core.JavaCore.create(String, WorkingCopyOwner)
   org.eclipse.jdt.core.JavaCore.create(IFile)
   org.eclipse.jdt.core.JavaCore.create(IFolder)
   ...

The search can be restricted to the current classpath of the selection or to the whole workspace. Potentially, both can make sense.

Comment 1 Marcel Bruch

2012-08-19 07:09:57 EDT

the extdoc plugin contains such a static hooks provider now.

Comment 2 Marcel Bruch

2012-08-19 07:10:46 EDT

sorry. wrong ticket. This is still not implemented.

Comment 3 Marcel Bruch

2013-04-10 02:34:24 EDT

May be an interesting feature for 2.0. Scheduling this for discussion.

Comment 4 Andreas Sewe

2014-07-21 02:58:45 EDT

Unless we get an external contribution, I don't see this in 2.2.0.