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.

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.

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.