Difference between revisions of "Google Summer of Code 2015/JDT UI Code Completion and Refactoring"

Revision as of 04:49, 1 June 2015

Contact

gabor at_sign kovesdan dot_here org

Project Goals

• Exploring current refactoring features of JDT UI, especially those related to Java 8 and extend its functionality with new features. For example: refactoring to Optional<T>, using String.join instead of StringBuffer, new Date API etc.

• Implement a simplified substring code completion. Only a small subset of substring matching will be implemented, which are useful to be an integral part of JDT UI. For example, .SelectionListener should match .addSelectionListener but not .addSelectionTestListener or .SL should match .addSelectionListener and .setSelectionListener but not .addSelectionTestListener.

• Implement postfix code completion. It increases developer productivity by reducing the need to jump back in the code. Often we start to type variable or type names and then we realize we have to go back to put a specific keyword before, such as if or throw. A demo about the concept is available [1] Also, there is some work done towards this feature. I propose reviewing and integrating this to JDT.

Details on Substring completion

TODO

Details on Tail Completion completion

We have already a partial contribution for this to JDT, see https://github.com/trylimits/Eclipse-Postfix-Code-Completion https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/40855/

TODO

Create wiki for GSOC

Introduction mail to JDT UI list

Clone JDT UI at Github

Sign CLA

Configure my workspace for the work, including Gerrit setup