Re: find all instances of method x
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 aaron armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: there is one ide feature which i have used in other ides this i constantly miss. there was a way to find all instances of any method within a project - thus allowing me to know who/what might be effected by my changes and to know if anything was actually using it still. Which IDE? Probably Visual Age. i've been using jde as my ide for almost 2 years now and love it, i don't use many of its bells and whistles, so i'm ignorant of all it can do and am hoping someone can give me some pointers on how to find this feature. Basically you need either a incremental compiler with an index or the ability to parse method bodies. From what I hear Semantic 2 will include message body parsing. what this feature would allow me to do is find all places where my.class.Person.create() is called in my project. yeah... sorry.. grep? Kevin - -- Kevin A. Burton ( [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) Location - San Francisco, CA, Cell - 415.595.9965 Jabber - [EMAIL PROTECTED], Web - http://relativity.yi.org/ Help! I'm a neural net trapped inside a man's body! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Get my public key at: http://relativity.yi.org/pgpkey.txt iD8DBQE8WuzwAwM6xb2dfE0RApa3AJ0Z2UC1ImW8U9WaEQs9U4Zc7TgZwwCglwVB ud9GUl3zVtPFgGggODGlQMc= =0E87 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: find all instances of method x
Thanks to everyone who wrote me with ideas - sounds like Paul's will
work the best for now.
aaron
At Fri, 1 Feb 2002 15:09:47 -0500,
Paul Kinnucan wrote:
Curtis Clifton writes:
Aaron,
I use grep in emacs for this purpose. In your example I would do a M-x grep,
then grep -n -e 'create(' *.java
This will display a buffer showing all the lines containing the string
'create('. Clicking on lines in that buffer will jump to the particular line in
the source code.
I use JDE-Find-Expression to search for an expression everwhere in
the JDE source path (jde-db-source-directories). This displays all the
hits as hyperlinks in a popup buffer. Clicking on any hyperlink takes
you to the source of the hit. This command assumes that you have the
Unix utilities grep and find installed on your system. The Cygwin Unix
emulation package for Windows, which I use, includes both
utilities. Since Windows also includes an incompatible function named
find, I make sure that the Cygwin bin directory is ahead of the
Windows system directory so that Emacs will find and use the Unix
version.
- Paul
RE: find all instances of method x
Grep works fine for somethings, but not if you have some method like size that appears all over the place for other classes. In our development shop we run a nightly process after the build that pokes the the jar file and builds a cross reference file. There are a variety of java decompiler tools out there that could be used. We use InsideJC from Dr Dobbs, cafebabe and jode.
