[NETBEANS-3268] Extend inline hints support to variables and method return

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 11.3
• Component/s: editor - Hints & Annotations
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Benjamin Graf
• Reporter: Benjamin Graf
• Created: 21/Oct/19 18:31
• Updated: 03/Nov/20 15:45
• Resolved: 15/Jan/20 07:02

Description

Inline hints actually supports only literals for method and constructor calls. (NETBEANS-3218)

The support should be extended to also support the usage of variables and method returns. It is intended to skip variables that has the same name as the name of the corresponding method parameter to avoid occurrences like:

public String doSomething(param1:param1, param2:param2)

Example:

Issue Links

• is blocked by: NETBEANS-3218 Add inline hint support for literals used in constructors
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1643