Question

From within IntelliJ IDEA, when I’m within a groovy class, and refer to a property / field on java class that doesn’t exist, is there a way to enable the create property refactoring?

Eg:

// Inside Foo.groovy
void method()
{
    Bar bar = new Bar();  // Defined in Bar.java
    bar.someProperty = "Hello, world"; // bar.someProperty doesn't exist.
}

In the above example, I’d like to get access to the “create property” refactoring option on someProperty. Is there a way to enable this?

Note: I’m using IntelliJ 10.

Answer 1

As of now, refactorings for Groovy in IntelliJ are pretty limited compared to Java. The reason for this is Groovy is an optionally typed language, so the IDE needs much more ‘brain’ for Groovy refactorings than for Java.

create property currently does not exist for Groovy.

IMHO the only thing you can do is filing a ticket on http://youtrack.jetbrains.net. Jetbrains is very responsive – I know from own experience.