Proble with Eclipse IDE since J3.8

[roland_d_alsace]

Hi.

Since 3.8, my IDE (Eclipse) cannot find the statics class (Jprofiler, JFactory, ...) with the message Jprofiler or Jfactory, ... cannot be resolved to a type.

I think it'a problem with the namespace Joomla\CMS ?

Have you an idea how to solve this ?

Regards.

[roland_d_alsace]

Hi.

I think we need tu use :

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Joomla\CMS\Factory::getApplication();  

instead of

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JFactory::getApplication();  

since 3.8

[deleted user]

See https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/issues/18014

[Mapor]

I have run into the same problem, and your fix is working. But isn't there a better way to fix this than to change the Joomla core code? Probably something with include paths in Eclipse?

[deleted user]

No.

In 3.8 a lot of library level classes were renamed and for B/C reasons the old names had to be proxied and in many cases continue to be used to allow extensions that are overloading core classes to continue to hack the API in this way. The old class names just do not exist in the project space anymore except for in a file that registers the old class names to PHP's autoloader at runtime. You might be able to write a plugin for various IDEs that can parse the libraries/classmap.php file, otherwise your best option is to use one of the two tools in the linked issue to generate a set of "stubs" that will fix most IDE autocomplete issues.