Autocomplete and api field suggestions in strings

[Anja Remic]

Hi,

I have a question, it is possible to implement (or activate if it already exists) autoomplete and api field suggestions when writing queries in strings?

Thank you, Anja

[Scott Wells]

Hi, Anja. Sorry for the delayed response. Right now it's not via auto-completion. However, you can use what is called "hippie completion" to help with this if there are other references to the object and field names in the same source file:

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/auto-completing-code.html#hippie_completion

I'll keep this enhancement request open for first-class auto-completion in string literals, though.

[Scott Wells]

This was delivered quite a bit back in the form of Apex (and therefore SOQL) language injection. It should kick in automatically for string literals passed to methods that accept a dynamic SOQL query, e.g., Database.query(), and it can be forced using a // language=Apex line comment immediately above the string literal containing a dynamic query.