Eclipse Setters

[Graham VMead]

Howdo.
If I define a field in a class in Eclipse as
public String fooBar;
then generate the setter
I get
public void setFooBar(String string){
fooBar = string;
}
I'd like to configure it so that the generated method signature has a more meaningfull input parameter.
i.e public void setFooBar(String fooBar){
this.fooBar = fooBar;
}
or even public void setFooBar(String _fooBar){
this.fooBar = _fooBar;
or fooBar = _fooBar;
}
Is this possible?
TIA Graham

[Dave Hewy]

Hello Mr VMead - we meet again !
I'm not sure which version of Eclipse you're using, but I'm using the latest stable beta of V3 - V3M4.
When I do as you suggest, I get...

    /**
     * @return Returns the foo.
     */
    public String getFoo() {
        return foo;
    }
    /**
     * @param pFoo The foo to set.
     */
    public void setFoo(String pFoo) {
        foo = pFoo;
    }

Note, that I have set my params to be prepended with "p"
Which version are you using?
Dave

[Jeroen Wenting]

2.1.x does it sometimes.
It's not consistent though, sometimes it does as you describe from 3.0 as well, haven't yet discovered what causes it to sometimes use a form of the parameter type as the parameter name.

[Matthew Phillips]

In 2.1.x I've noticed that if you have a method call written prior to generating the method, then it uses the name of the parameter passed to the method. I've been looking for a setting that would allow it to parse the method name to get the variable name, but I haven't found one yet.

[Graham VMead]

Matthew: Tried to create a method that used the getter prior to generating the method, but still got the good old foo = string;
Mr Hewy: I'm using 2.1.1 and if I use the prefix setting that you do I get the result
/**
* @param pString
*/
public void setMyparm(String pString) {
myparm = pString;
}
Reckon its maybe a version thing, I'll download 3 and see what happens

[Graham VMead]

Had a butchers on the Eclipse.org newsgroups, it appears that
Version 2.0.x used
public void setFoo(String foo){
this.foo = foo;
}
Version 2.1.X
public void setFoo(String string){
foo = string;
}
The guys at Eclipse then obviously relised this was cobblers so
Version 3.0 reverts back to the 2.0 way of doing it.
Mr Hewy: They recommend not prefixing the parms coz this inflates the Javadoc but there you go.
BTW there is no way of altering the 2.1 behaviour either.

[Matthew Phillips]

Originally posted by Graham VMead:
Matthew: Tried to create a method that used the getter prior to generating the method, but still got the good old foo = string;

I went back and tested what I did. Instead of creating the method through Source > Generate Getter/Setter, I use the quick fix to generate the method from the code I wrote to call the method. That gives it the proper local variable name, but it doesn't generate the this.field = field line in the setter method.