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Provide a way to supply nullness information for library types? [message #1694465]

Tue, 05 May 2015 09:24

Eclipse User

Null analysis is a very useful feature, but it's also annoying that can't-be-null return values from third-party libraries are always marked as nullable. Can some kind of configuration file be side-loaded to define the nullness for them?

Re: Provide a way to supply nullness information for library types? [message #1694480 is a reply to message #1694465]

Tue, 05 May 2015 10:42

Eclipse User

You are waiting for https://wiki.eclipse.org/JDT_Core/Null_Analysis/External_Annotations Smile

See also these entries in the New&Noteworthy of recent milestones:

- https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.5/M6/index.html#external-annotations

- https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.5/M6/index.html#annotate-command

- https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.5/M7/#annotations-in-hover

We are just now sorting out remaining known bugs and usability issues to make this a polished new feature in the upcoming Eclipse Mars release.

You can already try it (and give feedback...) if you pick up milestone 7 (Eclipse SDK M7 is available, Eclipse packages M7 will be available end of this week).

cheers,
Stephan

Re: Provide a way to supply nullness information for library types? [message #1694485 is a reply to message #1694480]

Tue, 05 May 2015 11:01

Eclipse User

Sounds great! Will give it a go. Hopefully the community support for external annotations grow quickly Smile

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