Comment 1 fx 2006-01-16 06:23:35 EST

I think this function should be provided with "Format" when you press Ctrl+Shift+F


You can config this in the Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Code Style -> Formatter -> Edit

Comment 2 Olivier Thomann 2006-01-17 09:05:04 EST

The formatter has no notion of unchanged variables.
It simply manages the whitespaces for a stream of tokens.

Comment 3 fx 2006-01-17 09:31:26 EST

Maybe Eclipse can use "Quick fix" to do this.

Comment 4 Olivier Thomann 2006-01-17 09:33:49 EST

Then move to JDT/UI

Comment 5 Jimisola Laursen 2006-02-21 17:13:43 EST

+1

A Quick Fix or similiar in Eclipse for this operations would mean a lot to improving code, hence removing simple bugs. Especially, since I don't know of any other Java IDE/tools that does this for you. 

An article "Seven Low-Cost Ways to Improve Legacy Code" http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/04/28/hardcorejava.html brings this up in the third section Introduce final All Over Your Code. PMD detects this as well by warning that "Local variable could be declared final".

Just to clear things up by, bug reporter mentioned "unchanged variables and properties", that is, variables in immutable classes, local unchanged variables and all parameters except for in-out parameters.

I would really like to see this for 3.2 final release.

Comment 6 Benno Baumgartner 2006-02-22 03:50:21 EST

See also Bug 108558

Comment 7 Markus Milleder 2006-02-22 10:58:53 EST

The "PMD Eclipse Lite" plugin can add the "final" keyword unconditionally to all parameters

See http://sourceforge.net/projects/pmd-eclipse/

Comment 8 Benno Baumgartner 2006-02-24 13:06:31 EST

fixed > I20060221-1300

Added make final if possible: quick assist and clean up for private fields, parameters and local variables.

Comment 9 Jimisola Laursen 2006-02-24 13:10:19 EST

Wow, that was quick. Thanks Benno!