Description Stephan Herrmann 2016-08-20 07:21:09 EDT

The dialog for configuring the "Generate Delegate Methods ..." action has two buttons "Select All" & "Deselect All". Here I suggest to add a button "Deselect Inherited" so a user can avoid generating methods for which an implementation is already available via inheritance.

This would be particularly useful for the scenario of implementing an interface by delegating to a particular implementation: here the interface may provide default methods that provide convenience methods implemented in terms of other methods. These default implementations would be useful still in the delegating scenario, not generating delegate methods for those would simplify the current class.

There is already bug 476016 in this context, but that one only speaks about avoiding illegal code, whereas this request is about improving convenience.