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Why doesn't a local variable's IBinding have a declaring class, when in a class initializer? [message #648125]

Tue, 11 January 2011 06:08

Eclipse User

I've noticed, local variables declared in an instance initializer have no "declaring class" (IVariableBinding.getDeclaringClass() returns null).

However, classes declared inside an instance initializer return the enclosing class as the declaring class.

Should this inconsistency be considered a bug?

public class Initializer {
    {
        int i = 2;       // has no declaring class
        class Inside { } // has declaring class
    }
}

Re: Why doesn't a local variable's IBinding have a declaring class, when in a class initializer? [message #648167 is a reply to message #648125]

Tue, 11 January 2011 09:57

Eclipse User

This is what the javadoc of the getDeclaringClass() method defines. So changing it would be a breaking API change.

This can only be done by defining a new API.

Olivier

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