Why does resolveBinding() return null even though I setResolveBindings(true) on my ASTParser?

Question

I am writing an Eclipse plug-in that uses JDT AST\'s ASTParser to parse a method. I am looking within that method for the creation of a particular type of obje

Answer 1

Tucked away at the bottom of the overview of ASTParser.setKind(), carefully hidden from people troubleshooting resolveBinding() and setResolveBindings(), is the statement

Binding information is only computed when kind is K_COMPILATION_UNIT.

(from the online Javadoc)

I don't understand offhand why this would be the case, but it does seem to point pretty clearly at what needs to be different!