Slightly modifying a file with an error badge doesn't solve the problem. And it doesn't involve any enum classes. Somehow NetBeans "forgets" the first class when it parses/indexes/caches the second one with the same name (in a different module).
On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 1:19 AM Eirik Bakke <eba...@ultorg.com> wrote: > Is this a Maven or an Ant project? > > > > If you open up the source for _each_ of the classes involved, including > classes imported by the class with an error icon on it, insert a space > somewhere, and save it (to trigger Compile-on-Save), does the error go away? > > > > Are there, by any chance, any "enum" classes involved? What about > annotations? (E.g. "@Nullable".) > > > > (I've had quite a few of these errors myself, but possibly in different > situations.) > > > > -- Eirik > > > > *From:* Humphrey Clerx <hcl...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Friday, November 22, 2019 4:36 AM > *To:* users@netbeans.apache.org > *Subject:* NetBeans 11.2 "cannot find symbol" error > > > > I've recently installed NetBeans 11.2 and found a problem that a lot of > files are marked with an "error" symbol that a certain class cannot be > found, annotated by an "cannot find symbol" icon on an import statement > even though the class to be imported exists. > > > > Clearing the cache and restarting NetBeans does not solve the problem. > > > > This problem did not occur on NetBeans 8.2 or NetBeans 11.0/11.1. > > > > It seems to be related to there being two classes (in different modules) > with the same class name. NetBeans 11.2 only seems to 'index' the first of > the two and indicates the error on al imports of the second one. > > > > When building the project however, there is no problem. Only the incorrect > error annotations on the files. I am using NetBeans 11.2 together with the > nb-javac plugin. > > > > Is there any means of clearing this invalid error? > > -- > > In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain - Nietzsche > #------------------------------------------------------------- > \_O > ,__/> > <" > ' > -- In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain - Nietzsche #------------------------------------------------------------- \_O ,__/> <" '
