[antlr-interest] Can ANTLR be used for renaming a method or class/interface and all its invocations/references ?

[swedish_man_2007-antlr at yahoo.se]

Thank you Laurent for the answer,
but I was more interested in a more general (GUI independent) library 
(which, for example, might be reused for creating refactoring plugins for different IDE/editors)
but then ANTLR is not what I am loking for, or is it ?

Another way to phrase my question::
If my goal is to be able to parse/modify source code, with easy-to-use-methods (for renaming operations) as I described in my original question, then there is no point of learning ANTLR since that is not going to help me ?

/ Tom

--- Den tis 2009-03-03 skrev Laurent Caillette <laurent.caillette at gmail.com>:
Från: Laurent Caillette <laurent.caillette at gmail.com>
Ämne: Re: [antlr-interest] Can ANTLR be used for renaming a method or  class/interface and all its invocations/references ?
Till: swedish_man_2007-antlr at yahoo.se
Kopia: antlr-interest at antlr.org
Datum: tisdag 3 mars 2009 00.10

Sun's Jackpot offers an API for doing that. But it seems designed to
run as a NetBeans plugin. If you need to apply your changes as a kind
of batch in a headless environnment, fooling NetBeans could become a
hard job. If you need a fine customization of the renaming, Jackpot
looks ok for you.

http://jackpot.netbeans.org/docs/index.html


On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:23 PM,  <swedish_man_2007-antlr at yahoo.se>
wrote:
> I am searching for a library that you can use for programatically renaming
> classes/interfaces or renaming methods, including automatic renaming all
> references to the methods/types in the source code files/directories that
> you specify.
>
> In other words, I am looking for a library that can do the same kind of
> rename-refactoring that you can do in some IDE environments (e.g.
Eclipse).
>
> Is ANTLR the tool I am looking for (?) or does somebody here know of
another
> library that could help you to implement a method like this:
> public void renameMethod(
>    string nameOfClassOrInterfaceWithTheMethodToBeRenamed,
>    string currentNameOfTheMethodToBeRenamed,
>    string newMethodName,
>    string[] sourceCodeDirectoriesWhereAllMethodUsagesShouldBeRenamed
> )
>
> If the answer is yes, then is it simple and is there any code example
> illustrating how to do it ?
>
> / Tom




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