https://github.com/sirywell/handlehints

An IntelliJ plugin providing inspections and visual enhancements for the Java MethodHandle, VarHandle, and Foreign Function & Memory APIs
https://github.com/sirywell/handlehints

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An IntelliJ plugin providing inspections and visual enhancements for the Java MethodHandle, VarHandle, and Foreign Function & Memory APIs

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/sirywell/handlehints
• Owner: SirYwell
• License: mit
• Created: 2022-10-15T12:51:38.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-10-25T08:32:34.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-25T16:39:22.826Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: intellij, intellij-plugin, java, kotlin
• Language: Kotlin
• Homepage:
• Size: 1.87 MB
• Stars: 9
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 20
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# HandleHints

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This IntelliJ plugin helps when working with `MethodHandle`s, `VarHandle`s, 

and the [Foreign Function & Memory API](https://openjdk.org/jeps/454) by contributing type hints,

inspections, and enhanced auto completions.

### Features

- Dataflow-sensitive type analysis

- Support for methods from the `MethodHandles` class

- Support for methods from the `MethodHandles.Lookup` class

- Support for methods from the `MethodType` class

- Support for methods from the `MethodHandle` class

- Support for methods from `MemoryLayout` classes (type tracking for memory layouts)

- Support for methods from the `PathElement` class

- Precise type tracking for parameters and return types separately

- Inspections for supported creation/transformation/combination methods

- Inspections for `invoke` and `invokeExact` arguments and return type checks

- Inspections for invalid layout paths

- Inspections for misaligned struct layouts, with quick fixes for padding/alignment adjustment

- Inlay type hints

## Installation

- Using IDE built-in plugin system:

  

  Settings/Preferences > Plugins > Marketplace > Search for "HandleHints" >

  Install Plugin

  

- Manually:

  Download the [latest release](https://github.com/SirYwell/HandleHints/releases/latest) and install it manually using

  Settings/Preferences > Plugins > ⚙️ > Install plugin from disk...

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Plugin based on the [IntelliJ Platform Plugin Template][template].

[template]: https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-platform-plugin-template