IntelliJ copy class field names and paste them into method as arguments? - intellij-idea

Question

I am designing a Vaadin UI component with around 30 components
e.g.
public class MyView {
private TextField foo;
private TextField bar;
private TextField bobby;
private TextField x;
private TextField y;
private TextField z;
private TextField ad;
private TextField nauseum;
private TextField thisisboring;
public MyView() {
formview.add(foo,bar,bobby,tables,x,y,z,ad,nauseum,thisisboring);
}
}
I want to add all these fields as arguments into the formview.add() method. At the moment I am manually adding each field to this method.
Is there an easier way for IntelliJ to generate all these field names as arguments of a function?
(I really don't want to type 30 fields into a method)

Answer 1

Not a perfect solution, but use multi-caret selection:
First double click on the first identifier you need, then double click on each following identifier while holding Alt+Shift down. You should have all the identifiers you need selected. Copy them to the clipboard using Cmd/Ctrl+C. Put the caret between the parentheses of formview.add(). Don't hold any keys down, so you have only a single caret left. Paste Cmd/Ctrl+V. All identifiers will be pasted on separate lines. Hold Alt and click and drag the mouse past the end of the selected lines (except the last one). This should add a caret at the end of every line. Type a , to add a comma between the pasted identifiers and optionally join lines Ctrl+Shift+J to put the call on a single line.
This should be quite a bit less work than typing everything out.

Answer 2

I can think of one naive approach: Declaring it like
private AbstractField<String> foo, bar, bobby, x, y, z, ad, nauseum, thisisboring;
and just copy/paste (or if there are multiple field types, at least group the same types)?
Or maybe better approach: as the root of the problem is probably too many parameters, we can encapsulate it:
private FormFields formFields;
public MyView() {
formview.add(formFields.asArray());
}
public static class FormFields {
private TextField foo;
...
public Component[] asArray() {
return new Component[]{foo, bar, bobby, x, y, z, ad, nauseum, thisisboring};
}
... //getters etc.
}