Bug 78273

Description thomas menzel 2004-11-10 06:35:54 EST

i often use templates and have created quite a bunch myself to speed up coding 
for stuff i often use.

i'd find a generic way to ask for a proposal of a certain type to be very 
helpful.

case 1:
i have the following template for "ifn"
if( ${var} == null) {
}

now i'd like To have a proper proposal for $(var) that could be any object and 
hence i'd like to spec smth. like this: 

if( ${proposal:java.lang.Object} == null) {
}

the alg. to find the proposal could just be the same for filling in proposals 
for methods when expanding them with ctrl-shift, which i think takes the most 
recent variable of the requested type/class.

the format of the variable is then ${proposal:<type>}. for the primitives we 
just could do long, int, char, ...

i dont know if that format is possible or if its possible at all to have 
parameters for a template variable. it'd be nice though

another example: iteration over a map
for (Iterator ${iterator} = ${proposal:java.util.Map}.entrySet().iterator(); 
${iterator}.hasNext(); ) {
		Map.Entry me = (Map.Entry) iter.next();
		${keyType} key = (${keyType}) me.getKey();
		${valType} val = (${valType}) me.getValue();
	${cursor}
}

no this case is still ok and not much or difficult for java 1.4 but it will get 
difficult as it touches the ground of generics and i have no clue how to handly 
in such situations the proposals as you have 3 other types that will depend on 
the generics of the Map being chosen. 
but we all like challanges! right?