Refactor "package structure" in Eclipse to relocate a package's child package to its parent package

In Eclipse's "Package Explorer", let's say I have a list of packages like this:

• com.animal.dog
• com.animal.cat
• com.animal.frog

If I want to 开发者_运维百科refactor this package structure so that the final package structure looks like

• com.dog
• com.cat
• com.frog

So essentially removing the parent package & attaching the child packages to its grandparent. I have many child packages in "com.animal" package & I would like to avoid if possible doing this manually & then also changing the package imports everywhere.

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If you switch your package representation to hierarchical (from arrow on the top-right), you can right-click the com.animal package and rename it to com.

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Probably you don't have any classes directly under com.animal. What you can do is either follow Bozho's suggestion (and switch to hierarchical view) or create a temporary class directly under com.animal. This way Eclipse would present a separate entry for com.animal.

Having selected com.animal you can simply do the rename refactoring. Make sure you select the 'Rename subpackages' checkbox.