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

[Loring Craymer]

It is relatively easy to build such a facility for any language for which you have an ANTLR grammar suite (lexer, parser, tree walker), but why reinvent the wheel?  This sort of refactoring is not something that you would normally do in batch mode and is needed sufficiently rarely that any penalties for doing the renamings interactively from an IDE are swamped by the effort needed to implement the library.

--Loring




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From: "swedish_man_2007-antlr at yahoo.se" <swedish_man_2007-antlr at yahoo.se>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2009 3:03:30 PM
Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] Can ANTLR be used for renaming a method or class/interface and all its invocations/references ?


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
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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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