Find usages in this hierarchy

[marcglasberg]

In IntelliJ, if you press CTRL-ALT-F7 in a keyword that is used a lot, like a toString() declaration (in a large codebase), it will take FOREVER to finish. Actually I am not sure it would finish, I could never really wait enough to see it finish. I just see this:

As per @stevemessick suggestion (here: flutter/flutter-intellij#6346) I'm opening this to ask for a "Find usages in this hierarchy".

It should simply find the usages of the method on objects of that specific class and its subclasses.

It should not matter where it's defined. It matters the class of the method the caret was when I asked for Find Usages. It I was in MyClass.toString() then it finds toString() usages for MyClass and its subclasses. It should not find in superclasses. For example, it should not find this:

void logError(Object? obj) => obj.toString();

But it would find those:

void logError(MyClass? obj) => obj.toString();
void logError(MyClassSubclass? obj) => obj.toString();

[dart-github-bot]

Summary: The "Find Usages" feature in IntelliJ takes an extremely long time to complete when searching for usages of a widely used keyword like toString(). The user proposes a "Find Usages in this hierarchy" feature that would only search for usages within the current class and its subclasses, excluding superclasses.