Bug 73014

Description Sandip Chitale 2004-08-31 17:55:40 EDT

For the following declarations:
class Bar {
}
class Foo extends Bar {
}
Foo foo = ...;
Bar bar = ...;

foo = bar;

will trigger a quick fix with possibilities of

Add cast to Integer
Change type of foo to ...
Change type of bar to ...

This is all fine. I think a special case of String type variables should also 
be handled e.g. in the following case:

String barString = bar;

an additional possibility of:

Get the string value of 'bar' using bar.toString()

If the user selects this the code changes to:

String barString = bar.toString();

Another possibility is:

Get the string value of 'bar' using String.valueOf(bar)

If the user selects this the code changes to:

String barString = String.valueOf(bar);

This will work even when bar is not a Class or Interface.

These f course could be lower priority quick fixes.