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search_symbols

MCP tool from Javalens MCP by pzalutski-pixel

Search types, methods, fields by glob pattern

How to use it

search_symbols is exposed by the Javalens MCP MCP server. Add the server to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf and others), and the search_symbols tool becomes available to the model automatically. See the full listing for setup details and every tool this server provides.

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Blast radius — direct call sites by depth, or the full transitive closure over the project graph (transitive=true)

analyze_control_flow

Branching, loops, return/throw points, nesting depth

analyze_data_flow

Variable read/write/declaration tracking within a method; opt-in followCalls tracks null/taint facts across calls to sinks

Get imports, types, diagnostics in one call

find_affected_tests

The tests that exercise a symbol, directly or transitively — the set to run after changing it

find_annotation_usages

Find all @Annotation usages

Find all (Type) expr casts

find_catch_blocks

Find all catch(Exception e) blocks

find_field_writes

Find where fields are mutated

find_implementations

Find interface/class implementations

find_instanceof_checks

Find all x instanceof Type

find_method_references

Find all Type::method expressions

find_possible_bugs

Detect null risks, empty catches, resource leaks

find_references

Find all usages of a symbol

find_reflection_usage

Find Class.forName(), Method.invoke(), and other reflection calls

Discover JUnit/TestNG test methods

find_throws_declarations

Find all throws Exception in signatures

find_type_arguments

Find all List<Type> usages

find_type_instantiations

Find all new Type() calls

find_unreachable_code

Project-wide dead code — members unreachable from any main method or test, over the whole-program call graph

find_unused_code

Find unused private members

get_call_hierarchy_incoming

Find all callers of a method

get_call_hierarchy_outgoing

Find all methods called by a method

get_di_registrations

Find Spring DI registrations (@Component, @Bean, @Autowired, @Inject)

get_diagnostics

Get compilation errors and warnings

get_document_symbols

Get all symbols in a file

get_enclosing_element

Get containing method/class at position

get_field_at_position

Get field details at cursor

Get documentation/signature for symbol

get_http_endpoints

Assembled HTTP route table — Spring and JAX-RS paths composed from class prefixes, mapped to handler methods

Get parsed Javadoc

Assembled JPA entity model — tables, id fields, relationships with resolved targets and mappedBy sides

get_method_at_position

Get method details at cursor

get_signature_help

Get method signature at call site

get_symbol_info

Get detailed symbol information at position

get_type_at_position

Get type details at cursor

get_type_hierarchy

Get inheritance chain

go_to_definition

Navigate to symbol definition

validate_syntax

Fast syntax-only validation