Unreferenced/Unused Method, Field highlight about vscode-java HOT 6 CLOSED

You can try using Intellij, but that feature seems pretty controversial, so much so that people tend to disable it.

It's unlikely such feature will land in vscode-java.

Now if you really really want to get that feature working in vscode-java, I'd suggest you write an extension for vscode-java, that would embed https://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/unnecessary-code-detector, stripped of all its UI dependencies. Then you may be get something working. maybe.

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This is what you get today:

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Do apologies, didn't know that it works in some cases and in some it doesn't. It is not working in follwoing cases

• With Enums
• With public static final fields and public final field
• With public class methods

Would it be possivle for example in case of Constants class, as it does have any references to be grayed out?

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public modifier means a 3rd party consumer could actually use your code (eg. you're building a library), so would report false-positive "unused" diagnostics.

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Thank you for explanation. Just curious, what would be your approach finding and removing unused public methods, fields, enums from code?

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Thnank you for suggestions.

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