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Bug 12966

Summary: change more than class name after name changed in explorer
Product: java Reporter: onivy <onivy>
Component: UnsupportedAssignee: issues@java <issues>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: blocker    
Priority: P2    
Version: 3.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on: 17825    
Bug Blocks:    

Description onivy 2001-06-18 12:21:48 UTC 
currently, after changing the name of some class in the explorer, the name is 
also changed in the class declaration.

I suggest that this change will be done by finding all instances of that name 
in the file and replacing them with the new name.

this is needed, because the name of the class may appear in the comments, 
strings(reflection), and references (e.g. singleton pattern).

I can't see why all the instances of this class name in the file should not be 
replaced automatically, but this enhancement can be configurable.

another nice enhancement would be to prompt the user for doing the same for all 
the files in the file system.
Comment 1 David Konecny 2001-06-18 13:16:56 UTC 
Rename operation of file&class is done in Java module I think. And so I'm moving 
this enhancement to Java module as well.
Comment 2 Svata Dedic 2001-06-18 14:55:51 UTC 
Delaying after java module is converted to use MDR in order to find all
referencies to the class name; finding referencies in comments is not feasible
(and definitely not accurate) though.
Comment 3 Jan Chalupa 2001-11-27 12:49:52 UTC 
Target milestone -> 3.3.1.
Comment 4 Svata Dedic 2002-05-21 17:51:18 UTC 
Cleaning up before 4.0 planning
Comment 5 Marek Grummich 2002-07-19 17:28:45 UTC 
Target milestone was changed from not determined to TBD
Comment 6 Jan Becicka 2002-08-06 13:30:07 UTC 

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 7565 ***