Description Julian Ruppel 2021-01-19 03:53:27 EST

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If you search for references of a class you typically filter out import references , in order to exclude duplicated hits in your search results. (A class that gets used in another class typically appears in its imports). However, there is a shortcoming regarding static imports. If you statically import a class, it will not appear again in the class since it is imported statically.

As a result, if you have the exclude imports filter activated (as a means of deduplication and cleaning the results), you will (unintentionally) miss static imports as well and it appears at first sight, that the class is not referenced anywhere.

You have to spot the label 'x matches filtered from view' and adjust the filter settings accordingly, but then, especially in huge codebases, you might get overwhelmed with matches of normal imports that are not interesting to you. So you would often switch back and forth with that exclude filter settings.

So my proposal is to have not one but two filter options regarding imports.
1. to exclude ONLY normal imports (which would be active most of the time I guess)
2. to exclude static imports