Hello
When creating a new class extending a base class with abstract methods or
implementing a certain interface, it would be really cool if we could
automatically insert the methods that need to be implemented.
As an example, when you create a MouseListener, you can type :
MouseListener msl = new [TAB]
When you hit TAB, you have the choice to implement an inline MouseListener
or a MouseAdapter.
It's pretty convenient.
But when you create a new class, you just have a blank class, with no
methods, no implementation or extension.
So my IDEA, would be to provide two new helper features :
1) When you click on the project pane, and then in your sourcepath you
right-click to invoke the contextual menu.
You get a "New" item, with a list of new stuffs : "Class", "Interface",
"File" and "Package".
The first idea is to add another sub-list after "Class" and "Interface" :
Class should have as sub-items : "extends class" and "implements class" that
would show up a nice pop-up window with a list of Class or a list of
Interface to extend or to implement (respectively).
For the Interface item, it could also have an "extends interface" which
would give us also a window within which we could choose an interface to
extend.
2) Second enhancement, when a class is already created (or a newly created
class not implementing or extending anything), the user has that :
public class Stuff extends | [CTRL-SPACE]
{
}
When he starts writting "extends" or "implements" and asks for the
auto-completion feature using CTRL-SPACE, when the user choose a class with
abstract methods or an interface, all the methods that need to be
implemented should be auto-magically inserted in the class (if they don't
already exist).
Let's vote on these features ! What do you think about these things ?
Personnaly, I'd appreciate a lot to do that. Especially since lately I've
been implementing some comparators that implements the Comparator interface,
creating some derived class from some abstract base class returned by
factories, etc... There are many cases when you have to implement an
interface or extends a class. That's one of the basis of object oriented
programming !
All you comments are welcome !
--
Guillaume
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