[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: Searching for implementors of an interface

[Frederic Fusier <frederic_fusier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Senior wrote:
> Chris Senior wrote:
>
> > SearchPattern superPattern = SearchPattern.createPattern(aType, 
> > IJavaSearchConstants.IMPLEMENTORS);
>
>
> > Where aType is an IType for interface A.
>
>
> After a bit more testing it seemed the search only works with interfaces?
>
> If the aType is an abstract class it does not return classes that 
> "extend" that class. But the documentation for the IMPLEMENTORS flag 
> states that:
>
> "The search result is a type that implements an interface or extends a 
> class. Used in conjunction with either TYPE or CLASS or INTERFACE, it 
> will respectively search for any type implementing/extending a type, or 
> rather exclusively search for classes implementing/extending the type, 
> or interfaces extending the type."
>
> Which is what confused me ... it seems I have a choice of TYPE, CLASS or 
> INTERFACE? I thought it might deduce CLASS or INTERFACE from the IType I 
> passed in, and only do a TYPE search if I specify that.
>
> - Chris
It's a known problem and we're also confused on the subject :-(
See bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=124645.
We'll try to make it clear for 3.2 RC1...