The ambiguity of the static imports of methods could be resolved at the point of the method invocation. For example if you had a static import for two methods that look like this: void frobnicate(int i); // and void frobnicate(boolean b); Then you could import and use both, because the compiler could tell which one … Read more
My guess is that Eclipse and buildr are using either different Java compiler versions or different compiler flags. There’s a bug in the Java 7 compiler (bug ID: 715906) that generates this error when you statically import specific fields. The work-around is to use a wildcard static import. So instead of: import static pkg.Class.staticField; do … Read more
Starting with C# 6.0, this is possible: using static FileHelper; // in a member ExtractSimpleFileName(file) However, previous versions of C# do not have static imports. You can get close with an alias for the type. using FH = namespace.FileHelper; // in a member FH.ExtractSimpleFileName(file) Alternatively, change the static method to an extension method on the … Read more
Here’s what I’ve been doing to cope with the situation. I use global imports on a new test class. import static org.junit.Assert.*; import static org.mockito.Mockito.*; import static org.mockito.Matchers.*; When you are finished writing your test and need to commit, you just CTRL+SHIFT+O to organize the packages. For example, you may just be left with: import … Read more
This is from Sun’s guide when they released the feature (emphasis in original): So when should you use static import? Very sparingly! Only use it when you’d otherwise be tempted to declare local copies of constants, or to abuse inheritance (the Constant Interface Antipattern). … If you overuse the static import feature, it can make … Read more
See Documentation The static import declaration is analogous to the normal import declaration. Where the normal import declaration imports classes from packages, allowing them to be used without package qualification, the static import declaration imports static members from classes, allowing them to be used without class qualification. So when should you use static import? Very … Read more