Bug 330841

Summary:	Public Methods Flagged As Unused
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Missing name <ljohnson>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Ayushman Jain <amj87.iitr>
Status:	VERIFIED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	Olivier_Thomann, srikanth_sankaran
Version:	3.7
Target Milestone:	3.7 M4
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
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Description Missing name

2010-11-22 13:58:46 EST

Build Identifier: 20100917-0705

When the "Unused local or private member" Error/Warning option is selected for Unnecessary Code, public methods are flagged as unused.  This should not be the case since these methods, by definition, are declared for outside use.  Any method flagged with the 'public' keyword should be excluded from this check.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a test class and add a public method to it
2. Select either "Error" or "Warning" for "Unused local or private member"
3. Compile the test class and the error/warning will be generated.

Comment 1 Olivier Thomann

2010-11-22 14:20:45 EST

Please provide a test case that shows the problem.
Once this is done, Ayushman, please follow up.

Comment 2 Missing name

2010-11-22 14:44:04 EST

(In reply to comment #1)
> Please provide a test case that shows the problem.
> Once this is done, Ayushman, please follow up.

My mistake.  Please close this issue.  The class that I was looking at was a private inner class. This version of Eclipse now reports those method as unused whereas the older version did not.  I simply missed that the inner class was private.

Comment 3 Olivier Thomann

2010-11-22 14:47:24 EST

Closing as INVALID.

Comment 4 Srikanth Sankaran

2010-12-07 00:02:48 EST

Verified for 3.7 M4