Move Refactorings

In this section:

• Move refactorings: basics
• Performing Move refactoring
• Moving a package

Move refactorings: basics

Move refactorings allow you to move packages and classes between the source roots of a project, class members to other classes and inner classes to upper hierarchy levels. The move refactorings automatically correct all references to the moved packages, classes and members in the source code.

The following move refactorings are available:

• Move Package moves a package and its contents to another package or directory under the specified source root. When you move a package, you can choose between the following refactorings:
  • Move package to another package.
  • Move directory to another source root.
  • Move directory to another directory.
• Move Class refactoring enables you to:
  • Move a class to a package under the specified source root.
  • Make a class an inner class.
• Move Static Members moves a static field, method or inner class to another class.
• Move Inner to Upper Level:
  • In Java, this refactoring moves an inner class to a higher level.
  • In ActionScript, this refactoring moves out-of-package classes, functions, variables, constants and namespaces into a package. (In this case the word inner is used to refer to entities (classes, functions, etc.) that are declared outside of packages. The upper level means a package.)
• Move Instance Method refactoring moves an instance method to another class.
• Move File refactoring moves a file to another directory.

Performing Move refactoring

Moving a package