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Check and Reduce uses of Internal APIs and Reflection
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Description
We should Check and Reduce uses of Internal APIs e.g. in JDT and others.
Same for the use of reflective api e.g. in JavaBuildState
Discuss with the JDT guys what can be done better or if for certain stuff apis could be introduced.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by inventorying the internal API and reflective API uses mentioned in JDT and JavaBuildState. Discuss the findings with the JDT team; done means reducing those uses where possible or agreeing on new APIs for cases that need them.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100