Code Insight Weaknesses / Issues

Congratulations Oracle, SQL Developer is a great product.
However, major gripe for our developers is the weakness of SQL Developer's code insight. For example
a) Package names and or proc / func names - all of the results are always in uppercase, rather than the case they were compiled with. Our packages and package procedures are mixed case, because they are far more readible that way.
1. I type P_ [press ctrl + space] I see :
P_ACCOUNTS
P_ACCOUNTPOSTINGS
P_UTILS
whereas I should see:
P_Accounts
P_AccountPostings
P_Utils
as this is the case of the compiled objects and this is how they appear in the navigator.
2. I select P_UTILS and get P_UTILS in editor, then type ".", I see :
INDEXEXISTS
CONSTRAINTEXISTS
OBJECTEXISTS
whereas I should see:
IndexExists
ConstraintExists
ObjectExists
b) Object type names would be clearer than a glyph. I'd prefer to see function MYFUNC, rather than a glyph and MYFUNC.
c) Code insight gives you no idea what parameter types are, and we can't seem to get the "parameter insight" facility working
I type MY and invoke code insight :,
SQL Developer would show : MYFUNC(PINPUT1,PINPUT2)
TOAD would show : function MyFunc(pInput1 integer, pInput2 integer) return integer;
and TOAD will maintain showing the parameters as I type them in. TOAD is far superior is this respect.
We hope you can address this for the next version.
Paul

This insight will be overhauled. It has many issues. Including what you have listed.
-kris

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Dear SQL Developer Team,
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procedure test2 (inpar varchar2);
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Sorry Chris, been tied up. looked at this
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BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT)
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Code insight not working in sql developer 1.1.0.23

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Hello,
You should see things from this side sometimes ;-) It's a small team, working hard, very focused! Yes, there is indeed a sense of urgency and we are testing a patch SQL Developer 1.1 at the moment. There is always the battle between wanting to get an updated release to you, the community, quickly, and delaying to ensure what you get is good.
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BUG: Code Insight

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Code Insight is not refreshing properly. Two use cases:
1) Light grayed out indicator that member variable is not in use in a source file does not reliably disappear if you copy and paste exact member variable name into a method;
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It is likely a threading issue which means that it does not happen reliably -- however, next time I encounter it -- i will record my JDeveloper session and upload the recording. The amount of code is probably not feasible. However, I bet you could reproduce if you did the following things:
1) Create a couple of user libraries and import into your project;
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Facelets and code insight for XHTML

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Hi,
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I create a class with some methods and deploy it to a jar. I create another class in a different project and import the class from the original project. The code insight works fine. I now add a method to the original class and redeploy but the code insight in the second class know nothing about the new methods it until i restart JDeveloper!
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This has not been fixed in 9.0.5 actually, at least not the code insight
aspects. I just checked that it still reproduces under the latest 9.0.5
builds.
Since the bug 3034796 was originally filed for Javadoc issues, I've split
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Case of schema names with code insight

I'm running SQL Developer 3.0.04. I want my SQL statements to be of the form "SELECT * FROM schema.table" but I can't seem to find the right code insight option to make this happen. There seems to be a way to make everything lowercase (including keywords) but the closest I can get to what I really want is "SELECT * FROM SCHEMA.table".
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I don't think you're understanding the issue. This is about code insight, not about the tables being defined in lower case. Here's a step by step example:
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Code insight is not working correctly in Jdev 10.1.3 (preview) and java 1.5

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Message was edited by:
user444936

thanks for the info.
Hmm - too bad. I may have to switch to eclipse or something then, since my project involves some 1.5 parts and the missing code insights and import features are a real pain for me.
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Code Insight and JSP and JDEVELOPER

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30EA2 code insight completion odities

update statements seem not to be supported by code insight completion for table name:
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type 'update table_' and press ctrl-space does not complete table name.
When table name is typed, completion for field names works.
Completion of select statements:
Type ' select ' (space is important)
Popup show 'select * from' among others, select 'select * from' and get:
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Try searching this has been answered.
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/search.jspa?objID=f260&q=alias+insight
-kris

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Slow code insight in JDev 9.0.3.1035

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SQLdeveloper on mac and code insight

Hi!
Just downloaded SQL developer 2.1.0.63 and running it on snow leopard. (BTW, for others out there, make sure that you unzip the file with the standard apple utility).
I cannot get code insight to work for an Oracle or a Teradata DB.
For Oracle, i type in SELECT * FROM <DB_NAME>. ctr+space and nothing happens. this is in sql worksheet and in newly created files.
BUT if i just type in SELECT, in a second it gives me select * from table autocompletion.
as for teradata, i only get autocompletion after select in newly created files, but in sql worksheet - nothing works at all.
any luck on this?

when in type in select * from DBNAME.
this is what i see in the console:
*...?aux tok2?, parse time = 16
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FROM all_users WHERE rownum <=50
and username like ?
union all
SELECT object_type type, owner, object_name, null column_name, null column_id, null data_type
FROM all_objects
WHERE object_type ='TABLE' and object_name not like 'BIN$%' and rownum <=50
and object_name like ?
union all
SELECT object_type type, owner, object_name, null column_name, null column_id, null data_type
FROM all_objects
WHERE object_type ='VIEW' and object_name not like 'BIN$%' and rownum <=50
and object_name like ?
union all
select 'TABLE' type, user owner, synonym_name object_name, null column_name, null column_id, null data_type
from all_synonyms
where synonym_name like ?
and rownum <=50
and owner in (user,'PUBLIC')
DBNAME%
DBNAME%
DBNAME%
DBNAME%
Code completion time = 2271
when i do this:
select * from DBNAME.TABLENAME T where t.
i get this in console:
*...?aux t2?, parse time = 23
InsightableOracleDatabase.fetch() time = 705
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WHERE hidden_column = 'NO' and rownum <=50 and owner = ? and table_name = ?
union all
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FROM all_objects
WHERE rownum <=50 and object_name not like 'BIN$%' and object_type IN ('PROCEDURE','FUNCTION','PACKAGE')
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FROM all_procedures
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and owner in('SYS',?) and object_name = ?
DBNAME
TABLENAME
B
TERADATA
B
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but in the first case - it doesn't do anything (((
This is when connected to a Oracle DB. (i just also have a teradata connection installed, but it is not connected. not sure why it appears in the console).
Please help!
Edited by: strannik19 on Jan 13, 2010 3:55 AM

Table aliases and Code Insight Completion

Oops, never mind, I see there are lots of threads on this... so the big question is: Does anyone know when this will be supported?
One thing I am noticing with the new SQL Developer is that if you use table aliases (as we do here) that Code Insight Completion doesn't work. For example, if I type the following SQL:
SELECT *
FROM My_Table mt
WHERE mt.
At the point where I put the dot (i.e. mt.) I would assume that code insight would drop down a box showing me the columns in the alias mt (i.e. My_Table). But nothing happens. Now if I put the full table name My_Table in there (i.e. WHERE My_Table.) then the drop down occurs. But not if you use a table alias - and putting the full table name in defeats the purpose of using aliases.
I know that in other SQL developers (such as PL/SQL Developer) this works fine and we are used to it working this way with aliases. Is there another way to get SQL Developer to do it this way? Or is this going to have to be a NEW feature later on?
Thanks.
Tom
Message was edited by:
tbsimpson

Try searching this has been answered.
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/search.jspa?objID=f260&q=alias+insight
-kris

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