Eclipse automatic todo task addition

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Emil picture Emil · Sep 21, 2011 · Viewed 14.1k times · Source

Is there a way in eclipse to automatically add TODO task eg:- //TODO: TO BE TESTED to the top of the function or class so that i can easily keep track of the changes yet to be tested ?

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Kai picture Kai · Sep 21, 2011

Do you want to add the TODO when you generate the methods/classes? Then you could use code templates for that. Like // TODO Auto-generated method stub is added when you generate a method you could put any other comment on top of a method. Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Code Style -> Code Templates

Or do you want to add the TODO to all methods/classes which currently do exist? Thats a bit harder, you could write a plugin which does that for you: Eclipse JDT

If that TODO should always be created when you have modified a class or method you could also write an eclipse plugin which monitors the CompilationUnit in the editor. See recordModifications() here

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