+1. I need to do this all the time. Nice suggestion.
On Fri, 5 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> There is a kind of method signature refactoring I often use (manually) and
> which is not (to my knowledge) included in IDEA. The goal of this
> refactoring is to add a method parameter without disturbing any existing
> code. This is similar to the add parameter refactoring in IDEA, but instead
> of defining a default value to be used by callers, it uses a default value
> in the method's class and an overloaded method which uses this default
> value. For example :
>
> before :
>
> public void myMethod(AnOject o) {
> // code here
> }
>
>
> after :
>
> public final static int DEFAULT_MODE = /* default value in the refactored
> method's class */;
>
> public void myMethod(AnObject o, int mode) { // new method with added
> parameter
> // code here
> }
>
> public void myMethod(AnObject o) { // overloaded method, call the new
> method with default parameter
> myMethod(o, DEFAULT_MODE);
> }
>
> I also often use this refactoring with constructors. It's the exact same
> process i.e. defining a default value and an overloaded constructor.
>
> Do you people think this is a valuable refactoring ?
>
>
>
>
>
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