Visual Studio Code Outline should indicate public, protected, private, and package-private methods when viewing a Java document.

[tommai78101]

This is a feature request.

I don't know if this requires upstream support from Visual Studio Code itself. Currently, when viewing the Outline in Visual Studio Code, there are no indications suggesting the methods is public, protected, private, or package-private. In other words, it is difficult to differentiate the method accessors by type just by viewing the Outline. You can see the Visual Studio Code screenshot below, and try to find which one of them is not private:

In Eclipse, they have different icon colors to indicate the different method accessors.

It would be nice to see them, so it's easier to find and discover which methods are available from the Outline.

Environment

• Operating System: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
• JDK version: OpenJavaSDK 1.8 (on maintenance mode at work)
• Visual Studio Code version: 1.47.2
• Java extension version: 0.64.1

Current Result

Not easy to differentiate the method's accessor levels (public, protected, private, package-private) in the Outline.

Expected Result

Something along the lines of being able to differentiate the methods in the Outline.

[akaroml]

The Outline view visualizes Document Symbols, which do not have accessor info today. For this to happen, vscode needs to change its protocols.

Instead, you could use the JAVA DEPENDENCIES view provided by Java Dependency Viewer extension.

[tommai78101]

Ok, so it really is an issue that requires upstream support. I'll post there and ask for document symbols protocols support, otherwise it really would be nice to have this. Do you know of any prior issues on Visual Studio Code that is related to this, so I can make sure not to report any duplicates?

This is the only issue thus far I found to be somewhat relevant:

microsoft/vscode#97095

[sandipchitale]

Also support static indicator icon.

[mitonize]

These issues are also relevant.
microsoft/language-server-protocol#98
microsoft/vscode#23927