[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Rendering of CompilationUnit

[gregor.karl.frey@xxxxxxx (Gregor Frey)]

Hi Jerome,
okay, I have to change the IBuffer of the ICompilationUnit. But how can I
render the CompilationUnit of the org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom package
(nothing to do with the ICompilationUnit) into that buffer?
Gregor
 
Jerome Lanneluc wrote:

> Gregor,

> See IOpenable.getBuffer() and IOpenable.save(...). The idea is that you
> modify the ICompilation's buffer and save it to disk when you're done.

> HTH,
> Jerome

> Gregor Frey wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > I'm seaking a way to render the content of a CompilationUnit from the
> > org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom package. Is there a way to transform it in pretty
> > source code?
> > I got the CompilationUnit with the AST-parser, changed it a bit and wanted
> > to write it back to the original IJavaElement. But I can not find a way to
> > do that.
> > Can anyone help?
> > 
> >         SourceType source = ... // coming from somewhere
> >         ICompilationUnit iUnit = source.getCompilationUnit();
> >         CompilationUnit unit = AST.parseCompilationUnit(iUnit, false);
> >         ... // working on unit
> >         // unit -> source
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Gregor