Please rename Gson classes whose name contains a $:
com.google.gson.internal.$Gson$Types
com.google.gson.internal.$Gson$Preconditions
JLS 14 §3.8 says:
The dollar sign should be used only in mechanically generated source code or, rarely, to access pre-existing names on legacy systems.
It appears these classes were renamed by 4efb133 to prevent IDE auto-importing. However, nowadays IDEs (at least Eclipse) have ways to prevent certain types or packages from appearing in import suggestions.
Additionally these classes are in the internal package and with the Java module system they won't be visible to users anymore.
For now maybe simply removing the $s and adding a documentation comment that these classes are internal might already solve the issue.
Currently when developing Gson having to deal with these classes is (at least under Eclipse but I assume IntelliJ has similar issues) pretty annoying:
- Eclipse fails adding the imports
- Eclipse suggests bogus types in the "Open Types" dialog
- Using conditional breakpoints in these classes is not possible at all because Eclipse incorrectly assumes they are nested classes
- ... likely more
Please rename Gson classes whose name contains a
$:com.google.gson.internal.$Gson$Typescom.google.gson.internal.$Gson$PreconditionsJLS 14 §3.8 says:
It appears these classes were renamed by 4efb133 to prevent IDE auto-importing. However, nowadays IDEs (at least Eclipse) have ways to prevent certain types or packages from appearing in import suggestions.
Additionally these classes are in the
internalpackage and with the Java module system they won't be visible to users anymore.For now maybe simply removing the
$s and adding a documentation comment that these classes are internal might already solve the issue.Currently when developing Gson having to deal with these classes is (at least under Eclipse but I assume IntelliJ has similar issues) pretty annoying: