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Offer to 'import missing packages' like C# and Java
turkeyman reported this on 2014-12-30T01:21:08Z
Transfered from https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13912
CC List
- doob (@jacob-carlborg)
- r.sagitario
- Scellow33
Description
We really need a tooltip to offer to insert an appropriate import statement at the top of the module when calling a function that is not available.
C# does this very nicely. Java too. Since this is a VS integration, I think we should mirror the C# experience and terminology.
It's a distinction between the polished C# experience and our D experience that annoys users on an almost minutely basis :)
r.sagitario commented on 2015-01-01T22:18:05Z
C# is a pretty high bar, I'd be happy to get to the level of C++ integration. You don't get #include insertions out-of-the-box, you need extensions like VisualAssist for that...
turkeyman commented on 2015-01-02T11:16:40Z
Do you think it's particularly hard?
I would have thought all the cool advanced helper tools would becomes a lot easier with D since everything is namespaced properly, and there's no preprocessor...
Well it's obviously not urgent anyway, but it's nice to have these things on the list. I think import insertion would be a big win; D has a lot of modules. Try and do some string processing, you'll end up with 6 imports for different modules with string related functions. My problem more often than not is that I can never remember which arbitrary module different phobos functions come from. A popup helper would save me from that :)
On a side note, if we were able to approach the C# experience, or at least exceeding the C++ experience, I think it would create a powerful attraction for C++ users towards D.
Mago really helps the debug experience! It feels a lot more natural now, but at least in my work where I'm always linking against C/C++ code, I can't lose the C debugger >_<
r.sagitario commented on 2015-01-02T13:29:56Z
Let's see if Mono-D can do it, we might then be able to do it, too ;-)
More seriously, with the current rush to use selective local imports, a little more interaction might be necessary to select where to put that import. Also, adding to existing imports might be desirable...
turkeyman commented on 2015-06-10T07:20:14Z
(In reply to Rainer Schuetze from comment #3)
Let's see if Mono-D can do it, we might then be able to do it, too ;-)
More seriously, with the current rush to use selective local imports, a little more interaction might be necessary to select where to put that import. Also, adding to existing imports might be desirable...
Yeah you're right, it's a lot more comprehensive than C# :)
I can imagine some nice solutions, but yeah, quite a few details. There are 4 states I can imagine, global/local (ie, import placed in local function) and whole-module/single-symbol.
There would want to be logic such that single-symbol imports would be appended to a comma separated list of other symbols that may already be import from the same module.
The 4 states that the user may select may be a little awkward for ui :)
doob (@jacob-carlborg) commented on 2015-06-10T11:27:34Z
In Eclipse, the IDE will automatically add missing imports if autocomplete is used to select a symbol.
turkeyman commented on 2019-05-11T15:14:45Z
*** Issue 17151 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***