How can I use the java Eclipse Abstract Syntax Tree in a project outside Eclipse? (ie not an eclipse plugin)
All the Eclipse AST examples that I've seen are for eclipse plugins. Is there a way (ie an example) of a project that uses the eclipse AST for a non-eclipse project.
Below is the code I used to do this given a Java 1.5 file. I'm very new to this and spent today browsing around, and trying things out to get the code below working.
public void processJavaFile(File file) {
String source = FileUtils.readFileToString(file);
Document document = new Document(source);
ASTParser parser = ASTParser.newParser(AST.JLS3);
parser.setSource(document.get().toCharArray());
CompilationUnit unit = (CompilationUnit)parser.createAST(null);
unit.recordModifications();
// to get the imports from the file
List<ImportDeclaration> imports = unit.imports();
for (ImportDeclaration i : imports) {
System.out.println(i.getName().getFullyQualifiedName());
}
// to create a new import
AST ast = unit.getAST();
ImportDeclaration id = ast.newImportDeclaration();
String classToImport = "path.to.some.class";
id.setName(ast.newName(classToImport.split("\\.")));
unit.imports().add(id); // add import declaration at end
// to save the changed file
TextEdit edits = unit.rewrite(document, null);
edits.apply(document);
FileUtils.writeStringToFile(file, document.get());
// to iterate through methods
List<AbstractTypeDeclaration> types = unit.types();
for (AbstractTypeDeclaration type : types) {
if (type.getNodeType() == ASTNode.TYPE_DECLARATION) {
// Class def found
List<BodyDeclaration> bodies = type.bodyDeclarations();
for (BodyDeclaration body : bodies) {
if (body.getNodeType() == ASTNode.METHOD_DECLARATION) {
MethodDeclaration method = (MethodDeclaration)body;
System.out.println("name: " + method.getName().getFullyQualifiedName());
}
}
}
}
}
This requires the following libraries:
commons-io-1.4.jar
org.eclipse.jdt.core_xxxx.jar
org.eclipse.core.resources_xxxx.jar
org.eclipse.core.jobs_xxxx.jar
org.eclipse.core.runtime_xxxx.jar
org.eclipse.core.contenttype_xxxx.jar
org.eclipse.equinox.common_xxxx.jar
org.eclipse.equinox.preferences_xxxx.jar
org.eclipse.osgi_xxxx.jar
org.eclipse.text_xxxx.jar
According to this old article, you should be able to call AST parser independently of your application context (eclipse plugin or not).
ASTParser parser = ASTParser.newParser(AST.JLS2);
parser.setSource("".toCharArray());
CompilationUnit unit = (CompilationUnit) parser.createAST(null);
unit.recordModifications();
AST ast = unit.getAST();
alt text http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ast/astexplorer.gif
From this bug entry:
ASTParser in 3.0 can be used in another standalone program to create Eclipse
ASTs without actually running Eclipse. As the documentation says:
char[] source = ...;
ASTParser parser = ASTParser.newParser(AST.JLS2); // handles JLS2 (J2SE 1.4)
parser.setSource(source);
CompilationUnit result = (CompilationUnit) parser.createAST(null);
Hence this thread attempts to parse a very short java source:
import org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.*;
import org.eclipse.jface.text.Document;
import org.eclipse.text.edits.TextEdit;
public class Test{
public static void main(String[] args){
Test t= new Test();
t.runtest();
}
void runtest(){
Document doc = new Document("import java.util.List;\nclass X {}\n");
ASTParser parser = ASTParser.newParser(AST.JLS3);
parser.setResolveBindings(true);
parser.setSource(doc.get().toCharArray());
CompilationUnit cu = (CompilationUnit) parser.createAST(null);
cu.recordModifications();
AST ast = cu.getAST();
ImportDeclaration id = ast.newImportDeclaration();
id.setName(ast.newName(new String[] {"java", "util", "Set"}));
cu.imports().add(id); // add import declaration at end
TextEdit edits = cu.rewrite(doc, null);
}
}