Hi Evan,
Your approach sounds reasonable to me.
- Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "Evan Easton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 10:14 AM
Subject: Completion on inner class instances
> How feasible is it to get jde-complete-at-point to work on objects that
are
> instances of inner classes? Is this something that can be reasonably
> resolved by the following combination of changes, or is there a likely
> better solution. I'd like to avoid a lot of unexpected work and gotchas
> that the few JDE experts would be aware of if this isn't the best way to
go
> about solving the problem.
>
> 1) Fix jde-parse-declared-type-of to return a possible qualifier for the
> type so that if the following declaration is found:
>
> Outer.Inner foo;
>
> it returns (list "Inner" "Outer"). Or if this is encountered:
>
> java.util.HashMap m;
>
> then it will return (list "HashMap" "java.util"). For unqualified
> typenames, such as
>
> String s;
>
> the result would be (list "String" nil). Other calls to
> jde-parse-declared-type-of would have to be updated to handle the list
> result instead of string.
>
> 2) Change jde-complete-eval-type-of to first attempt to find the class
using
> the possible qualifier plus the class name (using
> jde-complete-class-exists), and only if that does not work, then call
> jde-complete-get-qualified-name to find the class using imports using just
> the unqualified classname.
>
> ee
>
