Recent changes to feature-requests

java 6

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:12:24 -0000

Support for java 6 class and jar files

Better Local variable naming needed

Swaroop Belur — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 04:47:07 -0000

This issue will act as a tracker for local variable naming conventions and handling.

This is concerned when class is compiled without
debug info. jdec 1.2 had in fact introduced
slighlty better naming convention than 1.1 . However
the feeling is that names are still not good enough.

Need to address:

Things which come to my mind at the moment.

1> Make names fully confugurable.
.. Will have to be an XML file instean of property file.
2> By default if name is missing in configurable file and if type is reference type then jdec should write out
the reference type as the prefix instead of 'other' which
is default.
3> Need to remove the multiple ints appearing in the names. However similar reference types will have a integer suffixed to the variable name.

-belurs

Plugin for eclipse

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:25:24 -0000

Is it planned to create an eclipse plugin for Jdec? That would be a very nice addition.

Find Matching Brakcet (UI Enhancement)

Swaroop Belur — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:54:04 -0000

This will be a good enhancement. Users will clearly
know where a method ends or where a if ends or a loop
ends.

With this the probabilty of using an external editor
will reduce.

Need a methods tab showing various methods for a class file

Swaroop Belur — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:32:53 -0000

This feature should enable the user to click on a method
of a class and decompile only that method. All the
methods should be shown in the tab.This will be useful
because many times developers would have changed only
one method in a java file and would like to see only
that method. It will be waste of time to decompile the
entire file for the user.

Need to provide Syntax Highlighting Support

Swaroop Belur — Thu, 04 May 2006 11:49:46 -0000

Following features need to be implemented within the
next 2 releases:

1>Showing the output on the screen after Highlighting
the Java Keywords in decompiled output to start off with.

2>This should then be extended to other aspects like
numbers,Strings,operators

3>This Feature should provide customizable/configurable
support to the user ...like choosing colors and so on.

4>Finally as of this point(Requirements can extend when
decompiler support for 1.5 is made) User should be able
to use this feature when he chooses to create a new
java file in jdec editor window itself/imports a java
file into jdec editor window.

Need to add supoort for Showing Line Numbers in output

Swaroop Belur — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:01:37 -0000

Right Now, Jdec(1.0 release) is not capable of emitting
line numbers(corr to source code ) as part of output
produced by jdec.
As of Now Jdec simply stores the information given
by compiler when source is compiled with -g , BUT does
not process it.
This feature needs to be completed.

[NOTE :] This feature is only applicable for source
files compiled with -g option.

Need to inline anonymous inner class methods

Swaroop Belur — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 03:22:37 -0000

Right Now when jdec is asked to decompile inner classes,
and if the code contains anonymous inner class, jdec
shows the methods of the class in a outlined way i.e it
does not inline methods...

At present there is a flag(placeholder). BUt it has no
effect in jdec 1.0 release. So It will be good if this
flag is made active for the next release

Need to provide decompiler filter options

Swaroop Belur — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 03:18:11 -0000

Right Now if a class File is very big, it is noticed
that jdec does not finish the task fast.
If some options can be provided which can be configurable
from the UI, it can speed up the process .

For example some class Files will contain synthetic ,
methods, which the user may not like to see.

So a means should be provided to the user to choose which
type of methods hw would not like jdec to decompile.

Also in case of Jar , it will be good if the user
can select a particular package to be decompiled.
Suppose a Jar contains lot of packages and the user
wants some classes only from one package, it will be
waste of time if jdec decompiles the entire jar.
So this option also should be configurable

Need proper Handling when jdec is run with incorrect input

Swaroop Belur — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:36:03 -0000

This is applicable if The user does not update
confif.properties the first time he uses jdec
and tries to decompile a class File either by selecting
a class File from directory structure/New task or
directly clicks run. In fact this is applicable when
he does some operation w/o setting config data
properly.

In all the above cases better error handling is
required