Re: Method completion

WildDonkey wrote:

>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. 
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>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
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Doesn't the jconsole run inside the same JVM as the code you want to 
execute? Then you won't
need to use javap, but simply use reflection.

Ie. ask bsh for the content of  variable "inst", then use Reflection to 
get list of possible methods.
If a method is chosen, you can query a Method object describing it, 
which will tell you it's return value, etc.

For the chaining, you'll have to do some parsing... either
 - use the bsh parser (although that might not work for incomplete code 
like "foo.xxx().")
 - Or use a Hack that just looks for "." and "()" to search for method 
invocations.


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