[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: equality of MethodInvocation

[Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jing Xie wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I will just go directly to the point. This is my scenario: my plugin 
> scans a java file, get all the MethodInvocation nodes and holds them 
> in a data structure like an ArrayList, after a little modification on 
> the file, for instance, comment a statement with a MethodInvocation, 
> it rescans the java file and gets another ArrayList which contains a 
> list of MethodInvocation nodes. As you can see, besides the one 
> MethodInvocation node I commented, the others maintain to be there. So 
> what I am trying to achieve is to find a way to compare two 
> MethodInvocation nodes which share the same physical location in the 
> java file within two scannings and still return a true value.
>
> I tried ASTNode.subtreeMatch.match(MethodInvocation node1, 
> MethodInvocation node2) but without success.
I would expect that 
org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.ASTNode.subtreeMatch(ASTMatcher, Object) does 
the trick. If not, please file a bug against JDT Core with a sample snippet.

Dani
> I'd really appreciate someone that can help me out.
> Thanks,
> Jing