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There is a need to extend the JDT Indexer. We are currently building huge Java projects via samba on remote unixs, Our computers/network don't have the power to compile the full application on the net. so we copy the jars to our PC's and compile only the remote files that the user checked-out. But, we can not use most of the refeactoring abilities. We do have our own Cross-Reference (Indexer) database on our master code. So if the refactoring can use this, we can checkout all the needed files (via checkout on edit feature of the team plugin) and the refactoring will work. To do this we need an extention point for the Indexer to add the reference usage of files that are not in the workspace (I know that there are plans to extract parts of the Indexer for the CDT planed for version 2.2)
Will consider for 2.2.
Any news about this, I can't see any work in this area in the 3.0 plans. What are the CDT group doing about this?
I'm going to reopen this bug to see if some work can be done if 3.0
We are planning to generalize our index infrastructure for the 3.0 release, so as to accomodate Java-like languages. Intriguing whether this could solve your problem as well...
Hi Philippe, I hope that it will solve the problem. Basiclly what is needed is an extention point for the indexer. So for example, if we are searching for references of method C.m(), the indexer/search should perform its normal search and and then call the extention for more references. (The extention should handle duplicates if required.) Refactor Example: a (User) Project contains one file C.java, the master contains 100 more that are jared up and added to the build path. If we want to refactor C.m() and change its name to m1() then the Indexer will return all references to m() including those that appear in the 100 master files (returned from the extention point), if the files are read only (in the Jar/Master) - refactoring should act as normal and show a message. This should work for call heirarcy too. If you need more examples or help with design or coding please contact me. thanks LE
The new search participant API should allow to do this.
New APIs for search participant now allow you to contribute to indexes considered during search process. See SearchParticipant API.
