Project: JDT
Bug 29805 Resolve end symbol problem in Open Type dialog
Reported: 2003-01-20 11:20:10 | Status: resolved fixed

Build I20030115 Here is the proposal we want to implement (it is pretty much what Randy Hudson proposed): The user must explicitly disable the adding of the wildcard by using a special end symbol. But instead of using the '.' JDT proposes to use the % character. Here are the reasons: - '.' is used in fully qualified name as a separator. The open type dialog already supports entering qualified names (e.g. junit.framework.* shows all types in the framework package). So it will be confusing if we use it as the end symbol as well. - '$' is used by various Unix tools (grep, ...) to denote the end symbol, but it is as legal character inside a Java identifier. Some generated classes inside rt.jar contain a $ character. - so we have to use a character that is not a legal character for Java identifiers. We tried several operators and we decide to go for the % since it is easy to recognize and easy to type. I have opened the bug to further track this issue. Please add comments to this bug instead of replying to this post since bugs are easier trackable.

Files changed in fix:
org.eclipse.jdt.ui/ui/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/ui/actions/OpenBuildPathDialogAction.java org.eclipse.jdt.ui/ui/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/ui/dialogs/BuildPathDialog.java org.eclipse.jdt.ui/ui/org/eclipse/jdt/internal/ui/dialogs/TypeSelectionDialog.java