/**
* Gets the fully qualified name of the supplied java element.
*
* <p>NOTE: For easy of determining fields and method segments, they are appended with a javadoc
* style '#' instead of the normal '.'.
*
* @param element The IJavaElement.
* @return The fully qualified name.
*/
public static String getFullyQualifiedName(IJavaElement element) {
IJavaElement parent = element;
while (parent.getElementType() != IJavaElement.COMPILATION_UNIT
&& parent.getElementType() != IJavaElement.CLASS_FILE) {
parent = parent.getParent();
}
StringBuffer elementName =
new StringBuffer()
.append(parent.getParent().getElementName())
.append('.')
.append(FileUtils.getFileName(parent.getElementName()));
switch (element.getElementType()) {
case IJavaElement.FIELD:
IField field = (IField) element;
elementName.append('#').append(field.getElementName());
break;
case IJavaElement.METHOD:
IMethod method = (IMethod) element;
elementName.append('#').append(method.getElementName()).append('(');
String[] parameters = method.getParameterTypes();
for (int ii = 0; ii < parameters.length; ii++) {
if (ii != 0) {
elementName.append(", ");
}
elementName.append(Signature.toString(parameters[ii]).replace('/', '.'));
}
elementName.append(')');
break;
}
return elementName.toString();
}
