Description dev2null 2008-07-01 08:21:12 EDT

Build ID: N/A

Steps To Reproduce:
The Find Unreferenced Members action in the Core Tools plugin is a great tool for finding potential dead code! However it would be nice is some configuration could made to the plugin as outline below.

1. Create a new Java Project with two source folders src/main/java and src/test/java.
2. Add a class Foo with a method dummy() to the src/main/java folder
3) Add a Junit test FooTest that tests the dummy() method in Foo to src/test/java folder
4. Install The Core Tools Plugin (http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-core/updates/)
5. Right-click on the src/main/java folder and select Find Unreferenced Members

Now Foo.dummy() is not reported as unused as the compilation unit (?) as FooTest refers to the class. 

A preference page should be added for configuring the find unreferenced members action. A simple configuration option could be to add a "Ignore references from paths matching "vale", e.g. src/test/java. References that from source files matching the path set in the configuration should be ignore. If no path string is specified in the preference page all referring classes should be considered.

The Find Unreferenced Code action should also be configurable to ignore the serialVersionUID field for classes implementing java.io.Serializable.


More information:
The bug should probably be filed against JDT.. I've patched the core-tools plugin locally to add the enhancement requested in this bug report but it would be nice to see an updated official version of core-tools.