Closed
Description
When inspecting classes, often all fields/methods/... are prefixed with the fully-qualified class name.
Example:
Name: com.corp.Dog
Class: java.lang.Class
--- Interfaces:
java.io.Serializable
java.lang.Cloneable
java.lang.Comparable
org.apache.thrift.TBase
--- Constructors:
public com.corp.Dog()
public com.corp.Dog(com.corp.Dog)
--- Fields:
public boolean com.corp.Dog.isTopStylist
public static final java.util.Map com.corp.Dog.metaDataMap
public java.lang.String com.corp.Dog.sub
--- Methods:
public void com.corp.Dog.clear()
public int com.corp.Dog.compareTo(java.lang.Object)
public int com.corp.Dog.compareTo(com.corp.Dog)
This is particularly ugly in com.corp.Dog.isTopStylist - there isn't an actual thing named com.corp.Dog.isTopStylist - it's isTopStylist so removing the prefix would be both more readable and more correct.
There may be cases where there's a legit use case for rendering a prefix - I'm thinking interface implementation or method inheritance.
Even then, I believe the right thing would be to render the short name, and provide any extra info when going down that particular method.