Bug 465584

Summary:	Incremental build doesn't report breakages when API field refers to internal constant
Product:	[Eclipse Project] PDE	Reporter:	Markus Keller <markus.kell.r>
Component:	API Tools	Assignee:	PDE API Tools Inbox <pde-apitools-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, Vikas.Chandra
Version:	4.5	Keywords:	investigate
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 7
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Markus Keller

2015-04-27 09:17:45 EDT

Bug that caused bug 465521:

org.eclipse.jdt.ui.ISharedImages is an API interface that contains many String constants that are initialized by references to an internal class, e.g.:

public interface ISharedImages {
    /**
     * Key to access the shared image or image descriptor for a Java compilation unit.
     */
    public static final String IMG_OBJS_CUNIT= JavaPluginImages.IMG_OBJS_CUNIT;
    //...
}

When the value of the constant in the internal class JavaPluginImages is changed, the automatic incremental build does not report the API breakage. Only a full build on the project reveals the problem. The incremental API Tools builder should immediately report the problem.

Comment 1 Eclipse Genie

2019-10-09 03:07:28 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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Comment 2 Eclipse Genie

2021-09-29 00:04:29 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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Comment 3 Eclipse Genie

2023-09-20 02:15:50 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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