Question

Does anyone know of an Eclipse plug-in or method to get Eclipse to generate getter/setters on one line like this:

public String getAbc() { return abc; } 

Instead of

public String getAbc() {    return abc; } 

I’m on Eclipse v. 3.2.2.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I don’t know how to make Eclipse generate them in the format you want, but you could do a search/replace using these regular expressions after the methods are generated:

Find:

(?m)((?:public |private |protected )?[\w$]+) (get|set|is)([\w$]+)\(([\w$]+(?:\[\])? [\w$]+)?\) \{\s+(return [\w$]+;|this.[\w$]+ = [\w$]+;)\s+\} 

Replace by:

$1 $2$3($4) { $5 } 

This expression will transform the generated getters and setters to be one line. Don’t worry about running it with a mixture of transformed and newly generated methods; it will work just fine.