Adding Getter/Setter pair to interfaces

Jon Steelman wrote:

Is there a way to quickly, conveniently add getter/setter pairs to
interfaces? Something similar to "Encapsulate Fields" would do the
trick. I'll submit a feature request but want to check and see if I'm
missing something-- easy to do with such a rich IDE.

How can you added getters/setters to an interface? An interface has no
fields.

Ciao,
Gordon

--
Gordon Tyler
Software Developer, R&D
Sitraka (now part of Quest Software)
"Performance is Mission Critical"

One quick way to do it is to create a property in an implementation class
and pull the get/set methods to the interface.

Eugene


"Gordon Tyler" <gordon.tyler@sitraka.com> wrote in message
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Jon Steelman wrote:

Is there a way to quickly, conveniently add getter/setter pairs to
interfaces? Something similar to "Encapsulate Fields" would do the
trick. I'll submit a feature request but want to check and see if I'm
missing something-- easy to do with such a rich IDE.

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How can you added getters/setters to an interface? An interface has no
fields.

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Ciao,
Gordon

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--
Gordon Tyler
Software Developer, R&D
Sitraka (now part of Quest Software)
"Performance is Mission Critical"

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Gordon Tyler wrote:

Jon Steelman wrote:

>> Is there a way to quickly, conveniently add getter/setter pairs to
>> interfaces? Something similar to "Encapsulate Fields" would do the
>> trick. I'll submit a feature request but want to check and see if I'm
>> missing something-- easy to do with such a rich IDE.

How can you added getters/setters to an interface? An interface has no
fields.

Right, but you can still want getters and setters anyway. For example,
the interfaces javax.swing.Action has a pair for the boolean enabled and
java.beans.PropertyEditor has getter+setter pairs for text and value.

Jon

I meant to use the Pull Members Up refactoring.

Eugene


"Eugene Belyaev" <beg@intellij.com> wrote in message
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One quick way to do it is to create a property in an implementation class
and pull the get/set methods to the interface.

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Eugene

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"Gordon Tyler" <gordon.tyler@sitraka.com> wrote in message
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Jon Steelman wrote:

Is there a way to quickly, conveniently add getter/setter pairs to
interfaces? Something similar to "Encapsulate Fields" would do the
trick. I'll submit a feature request but want to check and see if I'm
missing something-- easy to do with such a rich IDE.

>

How can you added getters/setters to an interface? An interface has no
fields.

>

Ciao,
Gordon

>

--
Gordon Tyler
Software Developer, R&D
Sitraka (now part of Quest Software)
"Performance is Mission Critical"

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Eugene Belyaev wrote:

One quick way to do it is to create a property in an implementation class
and pull the get/set methods to the interface.

Eugene

Yes, thanks. That's what I ended up doing... actually using the
"Encapsulate Fields" followed by "Extract Interface" on a dummy class is
what I've done. Although it is less than ideal, maybe I'll just live
with it. There are times like this when I can't decide whether it is
worth adding a feature request-- The current approach is a workaround
but I'm not sure that adding the feature can justify its own weight
compared to the complexity it adds to IDEA.

Jon

A very simple plugin btw.

Eugene


"Jon Steelman" <steelman@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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Eugene Belyaev wrote:

One quick way to do it is to create a property in an implementation

class

and pull the get/set methods to the interface.

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Eugene

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Yes, thanks. That's what I ended up doing... actually using the
"Encapsulate Fields" followed by "Extract Interface" on a dummy class is
what I've done. Although it is less than ideal, maybe I'll just live
with it. There are times like this when I can't decide whether it is
worth adding a feature request-- The current approach is a workaround
but I'm not sure that adding the feature can justify its own weight
compared to the complexity it adds to IDEA.

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Jon

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You may vote for http://www.intellij.net/tracker/idea/viewSCR?publicId=1095

--
Valentin Kipiatkov
JetBrains, Inc
http://www.intellij.com
"Develop with pleasure!"

"Jon Steelman" <steelman@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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Is there a way to quickly, conveniently add getter/setter pairs to
interfaces? Something similar to "Encapsulate Fields" would do the
trick. I'll submit a feature request but want to check and see if I'm
missing something-- easy to do with such a rich IDE.

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Thanks,
Jon

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