Rejected Re: [cdt-patch] patch to add IIndex#getReferences(IBinding) and

[John Camelon <jcamelon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We've decided (for the time being) that
inflating IASTName's and IBinding's off the Index is a bad idea.
Instead, for finishing the Search Action/Content
Assist features in 3.0, just construct a search query using a binding.
 

JohnC
www.eclipse.org/cdt

cdt-patch-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 04/21/2005
10:54:07 AM:

> 
> This patch includes: 
> - new index/org.eclipse.cdt.internal.core.index.cindexstorage.dom
package 
>  -> contains classes required to mimic the DOM's IASTName
and 
> IBinding interfaces on the Index side of things, this way 
> IEntryResult's stored in the IIndex can be returned as an IASTName
instead 
> - added IIndex#getReferences(IBinding) and IIndex#getDeclarations(IBinding)
> - added a placeholder for IIndex#getDefinition(IBinding) 
> - added ASTTypeUtil#isConst(IType) 
> - added CharArrayUtils#concat(char[], char) to concat 
> IndexedOutput#TYPE_REF/IndexedOutput#TYPE_DECL with IndexedOutput#SOME_SUFFIX
> 
> Notes: 
> - might want to tweak Index#convertToIndexRefString(IBinding) and
> Index#convertToIndexDeclString(IBinding) so that in the future they
> also create IIndex search strings based on the structure of the 
> IBinding... i.e. limit the result to names in the Index found in a
> particular namespace/class/etc 
> 
> Devin Steffler
> IBM's Eclipse CDT
> Ottawa (Palladium), Ontario, Canada 
> [attachment "cdt_core_patch.txt" deleted by John Camelon/Ottawa/IBM]
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