Hi folks,
There is a kind of method signature refactoring I often use (manually) and
which is not (to my knowledge) included in IDEA. The goal of this
refactoring is to add a method parameter without disturbing any existing
code. This is similar to the add parameter refactoring in IDEA, but instead
of defining a default value to be used by callers, it uses a default value
in the method's class and an overloaded method which uses this default
value. For example :
before :
public void myMethod(AnOject o) {
// code here
}
after :
public final static int DEFAULT_MODE = /* default value in the refactored
method's class */;
public void myMethod(AnObject o, int mode) { // new method with added
parameter
// code here
}
public void myMethod(AnObject o) { // overloaded method, call the new
method with default parameter
myMethod(o, DEFAULT_MODE);
}
I also often use this refactoring with constructors. It's the exact same
process i.e. defining a default value and an overloaded constructor.
Do you people think this is a valuable refactoring ?
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