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Enhance Hints and Suggestions
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Description
I was using the extension for VSCode, and while it provides some helpful hints, I noticed that it lacks several features available in IntelliJ IDEA and other IDEs. One such feature is the suggestion to refactor traditional switch statements into enhanced switch expressions:
switch (expression) {
case 1:
System.out.println("case 1");
break;
case 2:
System.out.println("case 2");
break;
default:
System.out.println("case 3");
break;
}
The extension doesn't suggest refactoring it into the enhanced switch expression, which is a useful feature in many modern IDEs. There are other suggestions that even adding SolarQube it doesn't gets so good as some other IDEs suggestions.
I believe adding support for this kinds of features would significantly improve the developer experience in VSCode when using this extension.
Contributor guide
First steps
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- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the VSCode extension's existing hint and refactoring-suggestion implementation. Use the traditional Java switch example in this issue to determine the expected enhanced-switch suggestion; done means that suggestion works reliably, with coverage added alongside the relevant existing behavior.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java, typescript
- Domain
- developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 42/100