Re: Method completion

--- WildDonkey <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
> I'm trying to add some kind of method completion to
> the jconsole.
> The basic idea was to use javap on the variable
> which then prints out the
> filtered list matching the string between the . and
> the end of line. This
> kind of works but now I realise it's rather annoying
> not to be able to chain
> methods as in:
> inst.methodA().methodB(a,b).methodC().TAB
> 
> What is the best way to resolve what the type of
> parameters being passed to
> methodB is - do I need to resort to using the java
> parser and if so, could
> someone give me some pointers ?
> 
> I'll obviously send the patch back when its working
> properly.
> Thanks
> David
> 

Much larger question than can be answered really in a
few emails.  I think it would be easier to download an
open source IDE like Netbeans and see how they did it.
 You would not only have pointers, but a real working
example and the source.

Wade


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