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icon5.gif  What is an efficient way of finding the classes in a project using Eclipse's JDT? [message #706072] Sat, 30 July 2011 20:39 Go to next message
kcassell2001 is currently offline kcassell2001Friend
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Eclipse's SearchEngine class has many methods for searching, including various flavors of search, searchAllTypeNames, etc. searchAllTypeNames seems to be oriented around finding the classes in a package. What is a good strategy for finding the user-defined classes in a project?


  1. Use search with a custom IJavaSearchResultCollector.
  2. Obtain all of the packages in the project (using search?), then iterate through the packages, collecting the classes using searchAllTypeNames.
  3. Traverse the AST manually.
  4. Something else.


Note, I don't really need the "most efficient" way of collecting methods. I prefer something that is easy-to-code and reasonably efficient to something that requires large amounts of code to be more efficient.

I welcome any related, general guidance on using the SearchEngine methods. I find the many options baffling.
Re: What is an efficient way of finding the classes in a project using Eclipse's JDT? [message #706953 is a reply to message #706072] Mon, 01 August 2011 04:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Satyam Kandula is currently offline Satyam KandulaFriend
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searchAllTypeNames() does find all classes that match the given pattern. The package name doesn't need to be specified and this is supposed to be the easiest and the most efficient one.
Re: What is an efficient way of finding the classes in a project using Eclipse's JDT? [message #707965 is a reply to message #706953] Tue, 02 August 2011 09:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
kcassell2001 is currently offline kcassell2001Friend
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Unfortunately, if you provide a null package argument, you get all top level classes, not just the ones defined in the project you care about. Therefore, you need some additional filtering, I think.
Re: What is an efficient way of finding the classes in a project using Eclipse's JDT? [message #708138 is a reply to message #707965] Tue, 02 August 2011 13:58 Go to previous message
Satyam Kandula is currently offline Satyam KandulaFriend
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There is one another flavor of searchAllTypeNames() which takes an argument to match the package name pattern. Use SearchPattern#R_PREFIX_MATCH there.
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