Re: Programmatically doing 'Find Usages"

geertjan wielenga <[email protected]> Mon, 14 Nov 2016 23:40:52 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.devel
Organization Oracle Corporation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Could you not, instead of the below, have a menu item in the Usage 
output window to process the statements?

I.e., after the usages are displayed, you'd have a way of accessing 
those usages in the Usage output window and then do something with them?

Gj

On 14-11-2016 23:38, Sunil Dudani wrote:
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> Pardon my newbie questions:
>
> Background: i am writing a new search and recommend plugin for Java 
> development (please correct if this is not the right forum)
>
> 1. Specifically, i am requesting suggestions for sample/open source 
> code for "Find Usages". I wish to provide some additional user action 
> based on the search results.
>
> 2. Once the user clicks on a particular field (i have that working 
> using the sample CopyFQNAction plugin), i would like to display a new 
> button.
>
> Use case:
>
> User selects any java.util.logging.Logger.log() statements in a Java 
> file and the code should find all instances of similar log() 
> statements in all the open projects (same as what is being done by 
> 'Find Usages'. However, rather than display these in the Usage output 
> window, i want to analyze the statement and provide logging 
> recommendations to the user.
>
> Thanks,
> Sunil
>