RFR: 8240658: Code completion not working for lambdas in method invocations that require type inference [v2]

[Vicente Romero]

On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 13:56:46 GMT, Jan Lahoda <jlahoda at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> When a method invocation requires type inference, and the user is in the process of typing of a (block) lambda that is
>> a parameter to the method invocation, javac may not, in some cases, perform the type inference, which then may lead to
>> non working code completion in JShell (and possibly other tools).  For example (in JShell):
>> Arrays.stream(new Integer[]{1}).forEach(v -> { System.err.println(v.
>> 
>> and press <tab> - this leads to no proposals currently, as the type of "v" is not inferred.
>> 
>> The idea of the proposed patch is to improve the recovery in cases significant for cases where the text is being typed,
>> and allow type inference in these cases. The type of "v" is then inferred, and the code completion works.
>
> Jan Lahoda has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev
> excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains three additional commits since
> the last revision:
>  - Improving behavior for vararg method invocations.
>  - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8240658
>  - 8240658: Code completion not working for lambdas in method invocations that require type inference

Marked as reviewed by vromero (Reviewer).

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/50