Java source refactoring of 7000 references

Question

I need to change the signature of a method used all over the codebase.

Specifically, the method void log(String) will take two additional arguments (

Answer 1

IntelliJ IDEA shouldn't have any trouble with this.

I'm not a Java expert, but something like this could work. It's not a perfect solution (it may even be a very bad solution), but it could get you started:

Change the method signature with IntelliJ's refactoring tools, and specify default values for the 2 new parameters:

c: self.getClass()
methodName: Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace()[1].getMethodName()

or better yet, simply specify null as the default values.