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Bug 374286

Summary:	Provide refactorings that operate when selecting multiple fields/classes/methods/etc.
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Glenview Jeff <junk>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	deepakazad
Version:	3.8
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:

Description Glenview Jeff

2012-03-14 13:21:35 EDT

Build Identifier: 20110916-0149

I want to be able to multi-select methods or fields from the outline, package explorer, search views etc and perform refactorings on the multiple selections.  

At minimum this should be supported for visibility refactorings. For instance, I should be allowed to select a bunch of methods and fields and with one command, select "change visibility" and with one selection, choose "private".  Eclipse would then change the visibility of the selected group of methods and fields to private.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Glenview Jeff

2012-03-14 13:23:08 EDT

I omitted that this should also apply to including classes and interfaces in the selection.

Comment 2 Glenview Jeff

2012-03-14 13:28:08 EDT

I'm not sure if this should be split into multiple tickets, but there should also be support for applying other refactorings like this to multiple selections.

Eclipse should figure out what's in common in the multiple selection and offer whatever refactorings make sense to apply in batch.

For instance, if I select several methods, I should get a change method signature refactoring in the context menu.  When I select it, I should be allowed to change the return type, add a field, etc. but not be allowed to change the method name because it doesn't make sense.  Many mp3 tagging programs operate like this.

Comment 3 Deepak Azad

2012-04-10 01:03:29 EDT

Also see bug 28810 comment 1.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 24161 ***