Simple Custom Refactoring in IntelliJ

Question

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Say I have some class Foo.

class Foo {
    protected String x = "x";

    public String getX() {
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Answer 1

After adding the getFooX() method to Bar, I would use Edit > Find > Replace Structurally with the following expressions:

Search template:

$instance$.getFoo().getX()

Replacement template:

$instance$.getFooX()

It does the job perfectly. Maybe you can add some constraints to $instance$ variable to narrow the search but that would only be useful if you had multiple classess with that method name.