First Release of the groovy-eclipse refactoring plugin

Introduction

This plugin is the result of our first term project with the name "Refactoring Support for the Groovy-Eclipse Plugin". So far there's the refactoring "Extract Method".

During the next months we're planing to further improve various things for Groovy-Eclipse.

Usage

Select the code you want to extract, "rightclick", "Refactoring"

About the plugin

The Plugin is almost a complete version of the groovy-eclipse plugin (the testng feature is not included), it comes with a patched groovy-core that is based on a recent HEAD.

Source of the plugin

The relevant packages are:

org.codehaus.groovy.eclipse.refactoring
org.codehaus.groovy.eclipse.refactoring.test

• Direct SVN: http://groovy.ifs.hsr.ch/svn/GroovyRefactoring/groovy-eclipse/trunk/
• SVN via Trac: http://groovy.ifs.hsr.ch/trac/GroovyRefactoring/browser/groovy-eclipse/trunk

URL of the Updatesite

• The plugin comes with no warranty at all and we recommend to try the plugin in a separate installation of Eclipse
• URL: http://groovy.ifs.hsr.ch/GroovyRefactoring/updateSite/continuous_builds/

Known Issues

• AST Writer:
  • Enums will not be written back completely
  • Annotations will not be written back completely
  • The indentation of new methods is not always perfect
  • Comments are not written back yet

Feedback

We would love to get some feedback (rkleeb at hsr dot ch) about the plugin. If you come across a bug it would be extremely helpful if you could send us the piece of code that you were trying to extract.

Further Reading

• The report of the term project
• The offical Groovy Website http://groovy.codehaus.org/
• The Groovy Eclips Plugin Website http://groovy.codehaus.org/Eclipse+Plugin
• The Website of the Institute for Software at HSR http://www.ifsoftware.ch/

Thanks

We wanted to thank all the people that supported us during this first project!