[aspectj-users] AspectJ Refactoring APIs

[Irum Godil <softwarengineer2004@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I am trying to understand APIs in AJDT code to create AspectJ code programmatically. I have looked at these bugs: 111317, 110465, 88861. However, I still have a lot of questions. I will really appreciate if someone can help me.

 

1) First of all, bug 110465 mentions tests in org.aspectj.ajdt.core in class ASTVisitorTest. I am unable to locate this test class in the above package. I checked the project: org.aspectj.ajde, but I cannot find this class.

 

2) I was looking at the class AjASTRewriteAnalyzer. This class only has public "visit" APIs and I am not too sure how can I use these to create AspectJ code. Unlike the jdt OldASTRewrite it does not have APIs like markAsInserted etc.

 

3) I looked at the example given in bug: 88861. The example takes a string representing an aspect and creates a compilation unit from it.

 

I am thinking that is that the best way to create my aspects, i.e. I should put everything (all pointcuts/advices) in a string format and then call the AjNaiveASTFlattener.visit?

 

Even in this case, I created the string:

 

String source = "public aspect X {" +
    "pointcut p(): call(* *(..));" +
    "before():p() { c();}" +    
    "}";

and passed it on, but the print out is only:

 

public aspect X {

 pointcut p():call(* *(..));

 p{

  c();

 }

}

It did not print the advice signature at all.

 

>> Basically, I would like to create different kinds of pointcuts, create advice signatures, and also be able to create advice code from Java code (e.g. replace this.x by c.x). I am confused as to how do I do this? Should I put together everything in a String format and then just create a compilation Unit with this source?

 

I will really appreciate your response.

 

Thanks a lot,
Sincerely,
Irum Godil.

www.cs.utoronto.ca/~irum

 

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