Bug 92569

Summary:	Confusing API naming of Signature: getSignatureSimpleName
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Martin Aeschlimann <martinae>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	JDT-Core-Inbox <jdt-core-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.1
Target Milestone:	3.3
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
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Description Martin Aeschlimann

2005-04-25 08:43:52 EDT

20050425

For inner types like 'a.b.Outer.Inner' getSignatureSimpleName returns 'Outer.Inner'.

To be consistent with other naming, a simple name should only be 'Inner'.
'Outer.Inner' would be called 'type qualifier name' (e.g. as in
IType.getTypeQualifiedName)

As this API is 3.1 it might be worth it to deprecate the current version and
replace it by API 'getTypeQualifierName'.

Comment 1 Jerome Lanneluc

2006-03-28 11:39:50 EST

Are you saying that Signature#getSignatureSimpleName("La.b.Outer.Inner;") returns "Outer.Inner" ?

Comment 2 Martin Aeschlimann

2006-03-28 12:03:50 EST

Yes, the spec says:
 getSignatureSimpleName("Ljava.util.Map$Entry") -> "Map.Entry"

As mentioned, this API uses the terms 'SimpleName' in a misleading (unconsistent) way. You can't really call 'Map.Entry' a simple name, can you?

I suggest to reopen: Deprecated the method and give it the correct name. 'getTypeQualifiedName'

Comment 3 Jerome Lanneluc

2006-03-29 06:51:10 EST

reopening

Comment 4 Jerome Lanneluc

2006-03-29 06:51:32 EST

Post 3.2

Comment 5 Eclipse Webmaster

2009-08-30 02:35:31 EDT

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