Creating new live-templates with import statements in IntelliJ IDEA

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Philipp Claßen picture Philipp Claßen · Jun 19, 2013 · Viewed 9.2k times · Source

Here is the Eclipse template that I want to port:

${:import(org.apache.log4j.Logger)}
private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(${enclosing_type}.class);

My current version in IDEA is as follows:

private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger($CLASS_NAME$.class);$END$

where $CLASS_NAME$ is configured to use className() as its expression.

Unfortunately, I don't find any documentation on adding the import statement. Is there somehing equivalent to Eclipse ${:import(...)}?

Answer

Philipp Claßen picture Philipp Claßen · Jun 19, 2013

According to this post, it is intended to use only full-qualified expressions. I tried it out and this worked for me:

private static final org.apache.log4j.Logger LOG = org.apache.log4j.Logger.getLogger($CLASS_NAME$.class);$END$

IDEA automatically shortens it and adds the necessary import statements:

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
// ...
private static final Logger LOG = Logger.getLogger(MyClass.class);

If you want to try yourself, note that you first have to define CLASS_NAME as className() via Edit variables. Also make sure that you allowed your Live Template for Java declarations via Change (at the bottom). Here is a screenshot with the final setup:

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