[NETBEANS-4765] module-info utilities for common usage

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: java - Platform
• Labels: modularization
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ernie Rael
• Created: 02/Sep/20 17:10
• Updated: 14/Sep/20 15:45

Description

The only common api I've seen for working with module-info is

org.netbeans.api.java.source.SourceUtils{.parseModuleName,.getModuleName*}

There are several other things that need to be done with module-info. For example, adding a package for fxml access, or for refactoring when moving an exported java class to a different package.

There are module-info utilities scattered throughout the netbeans codebase. For example

./maven/src/org/netbeans/modules/maven/api/ModuleInfoUtils.java
./maven/src/org/netbeans/modules/maven/ModuleInfoSupport.java

and there's a pending fix for NETBEANS-4718 which adds a local "hasModuleInfo".

And notice sitting in .../netbeans/java there are 64 files given by

    srcgrep -l module-info | grep -E -v '/test/|/build/'