Inline renaming: Cannot find manipulator for FooUsageImpl in FooReference

OK, after some debugging through the internal IntelliJ classes it seems that

this.myElement);

returns null for FooReference class.

I was under the impression that you don't have to define your own manipulator if the node replacement can be handled through setName calls.  The Properties example also doesn't define an explicit manipulator, so what is different here?

Lars

Reply to self again, for reference:

I was missing

@Override
public PsiElement handleElementRename(String newElementName) throws IncorrectOperationException {
    FooPsiImplUtil.rename(myElement, newElementName);
    return myElement;
}

in class FooReference.  rename() then calls setName() explicitly.

hi Lars, interesting. I'm getting the same error and try the following to see if it made a difference:

@Override
public PsiElement handleElementRename(String newElementName) throws IncorrectOperationException {
   return myElement;
}

nope.  still get the same error when I click on an identifier in the editor.  setting a breakpoint indicates it does not reach that method. grrrr!   did you figure out anything else you needed to do?

Thanks!
Terence

I didn't have to impl handleElementRename to get error to disappear. I had to pass range up to the super class:

public class SampleElementRef extends PsiReferenceBase<IdentifierRefNode> {
   protected String id;
   public SampleElementRef(@NotNull IdentifierRefNode element, String id) {
      /** WARNING: You must send the text range or you get this error:
       * "Cannot find manipulator for PsiElement(ID) in org.antlr.jetbrains.sample.SampleElementRef"...
       *  when you click on an identifier.
       *
       *  Wow. This also solved the rename issue that was causing GUI thread
       *  to deadlock after the rename. 
       */
      super(element, element.getTextRange());
      this.id = id;
   }

for the record, even when I have a proper set and get name, I still get the error unless I set the text range:

@Override
public String getName() {
   return getText();
}

@Override
public PsiElement setName(@NonNls @NotNull String name) throws IncorrectOperationException {
   System.out.println("setName("+name+")");
   /*
   From doc: "Creating a fully correct AST node from scratch is
             quite difficult. Thus, surprisingly, the easiest way to
             get the replacement node is to create a dummy file in the
             custom language so that it would contain the necessary
             node in its parse tree, build the parse tree and
             extract the necessary node from it.
    */
   List<TokenIElementType> tokenIElementTypes =
      PSIElementTypeFactory.getTokenIElementTypes(SampleLanguage.INSTANCE);
   PsiElement newNode = Trees.createLeafFromText(getProject(),
                                                 SampleLanguage.INSTANCE,
                                                 getContext(),
                                                 name, tokenIElementTypes.get(SampleLanguageLexer.ID));
   if ( newNode!=null ) {
      this.replace(newNode);
      return newNode;
   }
   throw new IncorrectOperationException();
}

Same happens when I create an instance of com.intellij.psi.PsiReferenceBase without TextRange constructor parameter.

I'm having the same problem and none of the suggested solutions worked for me. I'm calling super and all and I'm still getting the same error.