[jbosstools-issues] [JBoss JIRA] Commented: (JBIDE-1203) EL autocompletion prompts static members

[Gavin King (JIRA)]

    [ http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-1203?page=comments#action_12385630 ] 
            
Gavin King commented on JBIDE-1203:
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My understanding is that EL does not support static methods.

But even if it did, we still would not want to autocomplete them. There is never (that I can think of) a good reason to call a static method on an *instance*. It's just confusing clutter to show it in the autocompletion.

> EL autocompletion prompts static members
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>
>                 Key: JBIDE-1203
>                 URL: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JBIDE-1203
>             Project: JBoss Tools
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: JSF
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0.Beta4
>            Reporter: Gavin King
>         Assigned To: Victor Rubezhny
>             Fix For: 2.0.0.CR1
>
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> Autocomplete pops up "instance" and "instance()" as options for actor, conversation, etc.
> I'm not sure exactly what the EL spec says about static members, but I  don't think we should offer them as an option in the UI.

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