Only a type can be imported. <class> resolves to a package

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Since a very long time I'm using STS (eclipse) to code on jenkins and jenkins-plugins.

But since I upgraded to the latest version (STS 3.8.1) I'm not able to do so anymore... The reason is an error I get when ever I import a jenkins-plugin project (maven based, e.g. https://github.com/jenkinsci/config-file-provider-plugin/):

Only a type can be imported. com.cloudbees.plugins.credentials.impl.UsernamePasswordCredentialsImpl resolves to a package

While the message is true about the fact that there is a package called the same as a class, this is the case for many many classes in the source of Jenkins. This is actually a convention, all resources belonging to a specific class have to be places in a package with the same name as the class.

Is there anything I can do to ignore this error?

Does the class exist and is it public? Maybe problem with different jars- then a classpath change, dependency reordering might help. — Joop Eggen
– Joop Eggen, Commented Aug 9, 2016 at 18:03
It looks like your compiler is buggy. I can't speak to whether there is a way to intimidate it into not being buggy, but if you're community-minded then you might consider filing a bug report. Meanwhile, consider downgrading to a version that does not exhibit this bug. — John Bollinger
– John Bollinger, Commented Aug 9, 2016 at 18:20
@JohnBollinger created an issue for STS issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS-4392 — domi
– domi, Commented Aug 10, 2016 at 5:31

domi · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-10 11:44:19Z

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its a bug in eclipse and hopefully fixed soon: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=495598

answered Aug 10, 2016 at 11:44

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FredG Over a year ago

It has been fixed in Eclipse 4.6.2 (Neon.2).

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