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I recently switched from Eclipse to IntelliJ Idea, and I'm very pleased with this change. But, I don't get how to write my own structural search template.

I'd like to identify all test methods containing try ... catch ... finally blocks in order to remove them. The replace template is second goal, first I'd like to understand how to find them.

I tried to use existing Idea templates to find all methods annotated with @Test with this template slightly modified :

class $Class$ {
    @Test
    $ReturnType$ $MethodName$($ParameterType$ $Parameter$);
}

I also used a predefined template to find all try ... catch blocks, I added the finally detection:

try {
    $TryStatement$;
} catch($ExceptionType$ $ExceptionDcl$) {
    $CatchStatement$;
} finally{
    $FinallyStatment$;
}

But I can't figure out how to go further and mix these two templates in order to find all test methods containing try ... catch ... finally blocks.

Here are examples of "bad tests" I would like to find with it, and "good tests" which should not match the structural template:

public class Tests {

        @Test
        public void badTest() {

            // some code

            try {
                // some code
            } catch (Exception e) {
                // some code
            } finally {
                // some code
            }
            // some code
        }

        @Test
        public void goodTest() throws Exception {
            // some code
        }
    }

Do you guys can give me a clue ?

Best regards,

Julien.

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You could first search for all test methods and then for all try-catch blocks in the scope Previous Search Results. This will give you all try-catch blocks inside test methods, which might be close enough to what you need?

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