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

[Jerome Lanneluc <jerome_lanneluc@xxxxxxx>]

I don't think there is API to render an AST. However you could use an
ASTVisitor to do the job yourself. Have a look at ASTFlattener in
org.eclipse.jdt.ui for an example.

Jerome

Gregor Frey wrote:
> 
> 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