[Springide-eclip-developer] Brainstorming for bean search functions

[Torsten J. <tor...@on...>]

All,

I'm thinking about adding a new plugin to Spring IDE's bean factory 
plugins which brings support for searching the bean model. Dave already 
created a nice extension to Spring IDE whith this kind of functionality 
(http://springui-ext.sourceforge.net/search.html ). This is a great 
starting point.

Now I'm just wondering which kind of search capabilities you are 
interested in?

The following is my take:

1. list of beans with a given name (already implemented by Dave)

2. list of beans with a given bean class (already implemented by Dave)

3. list of beans with unassigned properties (no property + 
corresponding value defined for a bean class' public setter)
     http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/spring/browse/IDE-37

4. list of beans referenced by a given model element (bean, property or 
constructor argument)


And what are the access points for these search capabilities?

Here is my best guess:

a) additional pane in Eclipse list of different search panes (Dave 
already implemented a combined pane for 1. and 2.)

b) context menu for model elements selected in beans view (could be a 
good fit for 3. and 4.)

c) context menu for current cursor position in text editor


What do you think?

Cheers,
Torsten