Re: [aspectj-dev] Public interface to access AspectJ AST?

[Maximilian Stoerzer <stoerzer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mik,

thank you very much for this hint, I think this is exactly what we have been looking 
for. We'll definitely look into that.

Thanks again, best regards,
	Max

Mik Kersten wrote:
> For the cases where using the org.aspectj.asm API is not sufficient I have
> added an extension point to the AST visitor used by the ASM.  So you get the
> whole AST, on a per-file basis (it's discarded after each compilation unit
> has been processed).  You don't need to modify any source code, just extend
> the AsmHierarchyBuilder using the ExtendedAsmHiearchyBuilder as an example
> template.  To run it check out the following directory as a project:
>
> http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.aspectj/modules/docs/sandbox/ap
> i-clients/?cvsroot=Technology_Project 
>
> Note that AsmHierarchyBuilderExtensionTest runs as a JUnit test using an
> example system only available if you've checked out org.aspectj.ajde and its
> dependencies.  If you're interested in extending the relationships that the
> ASM builds you can use the AsmRelationshipMapExtensionTest as an example
> template.  In general that ASM's map can be a convenient place to stick
> extra relationships that you want to persist across compiles.  But if you're
> planning on supporting incremental compilation, which I don't recommend
> doing for a research tool, you have to be weary of leaving bogus elements
> and relationships in the model.
>
> Mik
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: aspectj-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:aspectj-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Maximilian Stoerzer
> > Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 9:51 AM
> > To: aspectj-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [aspectj-dev] Public interface to access AspectJ AST?
> >
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > for an AspectJ tool project (extending the ajdt Eclipse plugin) we need to
> > access
> > the AST for AspectJ. The hierarchy model/ASM unfortunately has not enough
> > information for our purposes.
> >
> > What we would like to have is dependencies from advice/pointcuts to
> > referenced
> > pointcuts. Is it possible to get this information from the ASM or is there
> > an
> > interface where we can get the AST (without modifying the original
> > aspectj/ajdt code)?
> >
> > Thanks for any hints!
> >
> > Best regards,
> > 	Max
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> > Maximilian Stoerzer
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Maximilian Stoerzer
Lehrstuhl Software Systeme - FMI - University of Passau
Tel: +49 851 509 3096, eMail: stoerzer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx