[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: ASTRewrite for new method creation??

[Eddie Man <superman_eddie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There have an easy way to achieve your goals:


ICompilationUnit unit = JavaCore.createCompilationUnitFrom(IFile);
IType type = unit.getType("MyClass");
type.createMethod("public static void main() {}", null, true, monitor)

Prashanto Chatterjee wrote:
> Hi,
> I have used JDT and specifically AST to generate a Java source file. Now I 
> want to add a new method to this Java source file. The method name is taken 
> as input from the user and the method has a custom signature.
> I have seen examples to add a package declaration and imports using 
> ASTRewrite. Now my question to the group is whether I do a new method 
> creation using ASTRewrite? Which is the preferred way to create a new method 
> in an existing Javas source file?
>
> Regards,
> Prashanto