Simplifying fully qualified names in Eclipse

Question

Does someone know a plugin for Eclipse that replaces fully qualified Java class names with the simple one and the corresponding import where possible? It would be even better if it could be performed as a Save Action.

Credulous

According to bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=112999, this is a pending enhancement request. Please vote for it. :) But still would be good to have it as a plugin... – Credulous

Answer 1

Here's a plugin offering this functionality called Clean Qualified Types Plugin (CQTP): http://blog.mi-ernst.de/projekte/

Credulous

How can you set it to preserve comments too? – Yevetteyew

Need to use rewrite instead of toString after the clean. :) – Yevetteyew

Answer 2

No. But you can use Add Import command (Ctrl+Shift+M) on each fully qualified identifier to convert it to an import + a short name.

Lockup

+1 - I didn't either. But that's a one by one method. I would like to do it for whole source file(s) and at save if possible. – Credulous

I asked last year about doing this with static imports and received no positive answers: #824511 – Sulph

FYI...at least on a Mac you need to put the cursor on the Type (not the path) – Mar

I recently did some work in IntelliJ where doing this action resulted in all occurrences being replaced. – Sulph

That's better than nothing. Thanks! However, I wish it also worked in block selects. :( It appears you really do have to do this one at a time. – Disinterested

If you use maven it is trivially simple to work with your project in all the major Java ide's – Sulph