Missing code assist in map-style constructor

[mauromol]

From a code snippet in the old GRECLIPSE-1800.

Consider the following:

package c 
class C { 
    class MyBean { 
        String foo 
        int bar 
    } 
    class AnotherClass { 
        int createInt() { 
            return 1 
        } 
        String createString() { 
            return 'foo' 
        } 
    } 

    void doSomething() { 
        def a = new AnotherClass() 
        def b = new MyBean( foo: a.cre| ) 
    } 
}

Trying to invoke code assist at | brings no suggestions. I would expect to see c.C.AnotherClass.createString() (since MyBean.foo is of type String) suggested first, then c.C.AnotherClass.createInt() next.

[eric-milles]

Can you try again with the latest snapshot? I am getting the proper completion proposals in this scenario.

[mauromol]

I'm trying with Greclipse 2.9.2.xx-201705070120-e46, but I can't understand if I'm doing anything wrong, because I still get no suggestions at all in the above scenario...

[eric-milles]

Sorry, I tried something that I thought was the equivalent. There are a couple things going on in your example. 1. The completion is within a map-entry expression (pretty normal). 2. Your inner classes are not static. This combination results in a variant of a constructor call expression that is not properly traversed by the type inferencing engine.

So, I will get this fixed. Should not take too long. But if you do not need to refer to any parts of class C from either MyBean or AnotherClass, you can add a static modifier to them and the constructors will no longer expect a reference to C as the first (hidden) parameter and foo will get highlighted as a string and a.cre should give you completions.

[mauromol]

With 2.9.2.xx-201705080332-e46 it seems to work now! However, if I add @CompileStatic Groovy gives a compilation error. But I think this is a Groovy compiler error, not Greclipse fault. Using new C.MyBean(...) makes the error go away and code assist in Greclipse still works. Thank you!

[mauromol]

I opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-8179 for the compiler problem.