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| Summary: | Patch for: Open file from within string literals - plugin available | ||
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| Product: | java | Reporter: | markiewb |
| Component: | Editor | Assignee: | Dusan Balek <dbalek> |
| Status: | NEW --- | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | markiewb |
| Priority: | P4 | Keywords: | PATCH_AVAILABLE |
| Version: | 8.0 | ||
| Hardware: | PC | ||
| OS: | Windows 7 | ||
| Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Exception Reporter: | |
| Attachments: |
Proposed patch
Patch in action |
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Created attachment 141787 [details]
Proposed patch
@Dusan: I like to propose a patch for this RFE. Please review.
The patch contains a "simple" hyperlink provider which is responsible to get the path out of a string literal and to open the respective file. When there are no matching files (File.exists) then no hyperlink is produced. When there are multiple matches a dialog pops up which asks the user to choose a file to open.
Some open issues
* cache the results for the same path, because checking for existence is an IO-operation
* replace the popup dialog with floating listbox like "Open implementations"
Created attachment 141788 [details]
Patch in action
(In reply to markiewb from comment #1) > > Some open issues * i had to add a dependency to org.netbeans.modules.java.project to get access the constants for the source root query FYI: I created a separate plugin to provide this feature http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/52349/?show=true Lowering the prio to P4, because my plugin works as expected |
Usecase: Allow to open a file which is encoded within a string literal. Consider this example: package com.toy.anagrams.lib; public class NewMain { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("filename = " + "com/toy/anagrams/lib/WordLibrary.java"); } } When I (CTRL-)hover above the literal "com/..." and the file path defined by the literal exists then allow me to open that file in the editor. Note: I have seen this feature in Intellij IDEA and there is also an eclipse plugin [1], which provides this feature. [1] http://andrei.gmxhome.de/anyedit/ (Eclipse plugin)