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SpEL: add content-assist for bean identifiers in SpEL expressions
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Description
With the recent addition of Go To Definition for bean identifiers in SpEL expressions, we could also provide content-assist for bean identifiers in SpEL expressions as one of the next steps here.
While figuring out proposals is easy (we have this for many annotations already), providing a smooth typing experience in those SpEL expressions needs some investigation here, especially around how well the parser deals with incomplete SpEL expressions and how we can find the best content-assist proposals in those situations.
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 reading the existing Go To Definition support for bean identifiers and the content-assist implementations used for annotations. Investigate how the parser handles incomplete SpEL expressions and how proposals are selected in those states. Done means bean identifier content-assist works smoothly while typing incomplete SpEL expressions.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java, spring
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100