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Declaring (Java) Classes
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Description
In my work on the Gradle plugin I'm scanning the jars within libraries for classes that are being used by the potential sketch.
I think it would be helpful to have another field on the contributions, that declares what classes the library contains, we could use this at a later stage for auto-importing libraries as they are being used.
I think it would be helpful if these classes are user-defined as the jars contain a lot of classes that are not meant to be directly imported
as an example, let's say that controlp5 has declared that it should be imported for controlP5.* classes, then when the user opens a sketch from the web that imports p5, we can pop up a helpful dialog inviting the user to download the necessary library
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No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by locating the contribution metadata consumed by the Gradle plugin, then determine how user-defined class declarations could be stored and used for library detection; done means declared classes can trigger a useful library-download prompt without relying on every class in a jar.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
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- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 32/100