Re: [cedet-semantic] how to test/debug semanticdb-global?

[David V. <dve...@gm...>]

Hi Eric,

semanticdb-deep-find-tags-for-completion-method returns the following
when I use the symbol 'serve', which is the only method in my
Server.java file.  I interpret this to mean that the global table with
the search override is working, and finding the desired tag.

?#<TAG LIST: 1 entries>
 * serve
  | Name: "serve"
  | Class: 'function
  | Attributes:
    # :faux : 't
  | Properties:

I think my problem is this.  The only find method that
semanticdb-find-table-for-includes-default seems to call is
semanticdb-find-load-unloaded.  More important, it seems only to call
that method or do anything, only if the database has the
reference-directory slot bound.  The database/table that
semanticdb-global sets up for my Global database seems not to have
that slot bound (maybe that's correct behavior...I have no idea).  So
the while loop in semanticdb-find-table-for-include doesn't do
anything for Global databases.  Put another way, my Global database
has the desired tag ("serve", found in "Server.java"), but
semanticdb-find-table-for-include doesn't seem to work when the
include (a Java import in this case) is found in a Global database.
So Semantic doesn't know what the type is for any symbol of that
include, so that the other semanticdb-find functions don't work.
I.e., if I have "Server s = new Server();" in my Client.java file,
Semantic doesn't know what type "s" is because it doesn't understand
"import server.Server;"

Maybe another branch could be added to the boolean expression in the
while loop in semanticdb-find-table-for-includes to handle Global
databases.  I could look into that.

Thanks!
David