Bug 217432

Summary:	[refactoring] [drc] automatically replace qualification with import
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	G. Ralph Kuntz, MD <grk>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	JDT-UI-Inbox <jdt-ui-inbox>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	martinae
Version:	3.3.1	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows Vista
Whiteboard:

Description G. Ralph Kuntz, MD

2008-02-01 08:33:02 EST

Can you add a preference to create an "import static" if a qualified name appears more than N times?

For example, if the name X.FOO constant appears more than N times, it should be changed to FOO everywhere it appears and a static import added for X.FOO.

Comment 1 Martin Aeschlimann

2008-02-04 05:50:14 EST

We have no plans for this.
It's not trivial to do. The difficulty will be to do it 100% correct. There are several corner cases with visibility, shadowing etc, which would probably require a refactoring.

We already have an action that the user can manually invoke ('add import, CTRL + M') on a qualified name. You can also add your static import 'favorites' to code assist (see preference page)

Comment 2 G. Ralph Kuntz, MD

2008-02-29 10:47:30 EST

Yes, but it only replaces the one you click on, not all instances of the constant.