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Asked: 2026-05-29T22:59:45+00:00

I work in a pretty large Java-project (2500+ classes) that uses an old code

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I work in a pretty large Java-project (2500+ classes) that uses an old code standard where all
member variables are prefixed with “m_” (e.g m_temperature). There is really no reason for this any longer and I’d like to get rid of them but:

  1. In order to make the change I must do all variables at once.
  2. It must not generate any bugs.

The first naive approach of simply renaming all the “m_variable” to just “variable” will not be sufficient as that could produce name collisions between an already existing variable named “variable”, and the newly renamed one.

So, to sum up:
How do I rename all these pesky member variablest without getting into trouble and are there any more problems than the one mentioned above?

Yes, I’m aware of the refactoring/renaming features within IDEs, please bear in mind that I want to do the changes to all variables matching the criteria at once and not by right-clicking on variables and renaming them one-by-one.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Theres a question on SC which is about a massive refactoring in java too. The best answer is using japvaparser and implementing a visitor to do the actual refactoring. This shouldn’t be that much work for a simple rename.

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