Is there any ways to replace one class by another in Idea?
Greetings!
Guys, here is my problem: I have some class which is used in many places in my project. And I must replace this class with another from jar provided. Is there any ways to refactor this? I suppose this is a simple problem, but I dont know how to solve it.
Its not about replacing source code - what I want is to replace all class usages by class from my library and be able to completely remove my own class. Imagine I have created my own StringUtils and have found out that there is a apache.common StringUtils library, and now I want to replace it everywhere in my code. And the signatures of class methods are not a problem: they coincide.
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you can try Structural search,
see for example:
http://wiki.jetbrains.net/intellij/Basics_of_working_with_structural_search
and:
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/documentation/ssr.html
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:23:43 MSD, Dmitry Zhuravlev
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who said :
>Its not about replacing source code - what I want is to replace all class usages by class from my library and be able to completely remove my own class. Imagine I have created my own StringUtils and have found out that there is a apache.common StringUtils library, and now I want to replace it everywhere in my code. And the signatures of class methods are not a problem: they coincide.
Let's say I have classes A and B, I want to change all references of
class A to class B, but keep both classes.
One technique is to use replace in path, case sensitive and change all
the names, leaving A and B alone. Hopefully your class names are
unique.
Another is:
1. save a copy of class A.java and B.java outside of IntelliJ.
2. delete B.java
3. use refactor rename to rename class A to B and all references to A
to B.
4. copy your backup A.java and B.java back into IntelliJ.
5. synchronise so Intellij notices the new files.
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And why would you do so, with the really great structural search and replace at hand which can do the task a dozen times easier and safer?