Re: [aspectj-dev] DOMs and ASTs (for metrics tool purpose)

[Michal Stochmialek <misto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 09:02:36AM -0800, Mik Kersten wrote:

> Nice work on figuring this out and stating your needs clearly--all of your
> conclusions are correct.  While the ASM may be a convenient way of getting
> some of your metrics, you'll need to tie into the AST visitor mechanism to
> get finer-grained information.  You can do that in the exact same way that
> the ASM does, by extending the AsmHierarchyBuilder which is a subclass of
> the ASTVisitor that we get from the JDT.  For any additional information
> that you need to collect you simply add the corresponding visit(..) method.
> For example, to collect method calls you could do the following:
> 
> class ExtendedAsmHiearchyBuilder extends AsmHierarchyBuilder {
>     public boolean visit(MessageSend messageSend, BlockScope scope) {
> 	  // do something interesting with calls...
>     }
>     public void endVisit(MessageSend messageSend, BlockScope scope) {
>         stack.pop();
>     } 
> }
> 
> And register your custom builder by overriding the default one: 
> AjBuildManager.setAsmHierarchyBuilder(new ExtendedAsmHierarchyBuilder());
> 
> I've put an example test into org.aspectj/docs/sandbox/api-clients which you
> should check out as a project.  If you run
> org.aspectj.samples.AsmHierarchyBuilderExtensionTest as a JUnit test you'll
> notice that it outputs information about call sites.  

Thank you for the reply. At the moment I extracted the test case to
own project and manage to run it without all depended ajdt projects.
And it works! :)  I think this will do the work.  Thank you, again.

> Happy hacking,

:)  ...   


btw. Will ajdt be integrated with jdt java models? Many plugins
 works on it. Having ajdt extension, with small efforts those plugins
 could be extended for AspectJ support...

best regards,
-- 
Michal Stochmialek <misto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>