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Provide navigation support when clicking annotation members

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
devtools

Research direction

No files, tests, or entry points are named in the issue. Start by locating the plug-in's existing annotation hover and navigation handling, then trace how members such as @Mapping#source() and @InheritConfiguration#name() are resolved. Done means supported annotation members show type and full-signature tooltips and navigate to their declarations.

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Description

When hovering with the cursor over or CRTL+clicking certain annotation members, it'd be great to get a) a tooltip with more information (type, full signature) and b) jumping to the declaration of that element:

  • @Mapping#source() / target()
  • @InheritConfiguration#name()
  • ...

Hey @larswetzer, WDYT, is it doable?

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