Quoting Roland Zwaga <rol...@stackandheap.com>:
Hey Mike,
do you think your framework could also form a basis for static analysis
tools such as FlexPMD/CPD et al? If the parsing is so much faster than
perhaps these existing
tools could be re-written to use the new compiler. I myself know absolutely
nothing about static code analysis, but perhaps folks on the list here do
and leveraging your
existing work could be beneficial.
cheers,
Roland
Actually FlexPMD was the first recursive decent parser I looked at
years ago for ActionScript. All it did was create AST nodes for the
actual PMD implementation.
That being said I see no reason why the PMD implementation couldn't be
ported to use the new IDefinition API existing in the
org.apache.flex.compiler.definition.* package.
static code analysis
Heh, I would have to look this up on wikipedia. :) I'm good in the
areas I'm good in. Code analysis was never anything I actually set out
to learn.
So yes, if you can image a fully parsed source list with all the
trimmings sitting in a class that has an API;
Collection<IFunctionDefinition> getFunctions(ITypeDefinition definition,
String visibility, boolean inherit);
Collection<IClassDefinition> getSubClasses(IClassDefinition definition);
Collection<IClassDefinition>
getInterfaceImplementors(IInterfaceDefinition definition);
Collection<IInterfaceDefinition> getSubInterfaces(IInterfaceDefinition
definition);
etc...
Also note, there is some API in the scopes.* package that might make
it even easier for me to do what I already am doing. I haven't taken
the dive into that package to fully understand what it's capable of.
Mike
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