AppletTalk.com Java discussions newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  Need tool that finds all types of a certain scope...          AppletTalk.com Forum Index -> Java Help View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message TimOnGoogle Guest Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 12:05 am    Post subject: Need tool that finds all types of a certain scope... For example, a tool where I can say "Show me all public statics" or "show me all private methods returning voids" etc. Eclipse doesn't seem to have a complete set of searches for that kind of thing, so I'm looking elsewhere. Any ideas? - Tim Back to top Roedy Green Guest Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:24 am    Post subject: Re: Need tool that finds all types of a certain scope... On 29 Aug 2005 17:05:35 -0700, "TimOnGoogle" <fromGoogle (AT) apeshit (DOT) com> wrote or quoted : Quote: Eclipse doesn't seem to have a complete set of searches for that kind of thing, so I'm looking elsewhere. Check out Java Guru by kinabaloo software. -- Canadian Mind Products, Roedy Green. http://mindprod.com Again taking new Java programming contracts. Back to top TimOnGoogle Guest Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 6:56 pm    Post subject: Re: Need tool that finds all types of a certain scope... Thanks, Roedy, but that doesn't do it. It shows ONLY methods (not all class members), is based on Javadocs (apparently), and, in any case, only allows you to see the public and protected interface elements. Did you know that? - Tim Back to top iamfractal@hotmail.com Guest Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 10:29 am    Post subject: Re: Need tool that finds all types of a certain scope... TimOnGoogle skrev: Quote: For example, a tool where I can say "Show me all public statics" or "show me all private methods returning voids" etc. Eclipse doesn't seem to have a complete set of searches for that kind of thing, so I'm looking elsewhere. Any ideas? - Tim I just saw it in passing, I've not tried it myself, and it probably doesn't show all you want, but: http://jrefactory.sourceforge.net/csmetrics.html ..ed -- www.EdmundKirwan.com - Home of The Fractal Class Composition. Back to top Larry Barowski Guest Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 1:26 pm    Post subject: Re: Need tool that finds all types of a certain scope... "TimOnGoogle" <fromGoogle (AT) apeshit (DOT) com> wrote Quote: For example, a tool where I can say "Show me all public statics" or "show me all private methods returning voids" etc. Eclipse doesn't seem to have a complete set of searches for that kind of thing, so I'm looking elsewhere. What exactly do you have in mind? I can easily add something like this to jGRASP (easily as in "tomorrow"), since we already have class file scanning code that is used for UML generation, dependency analysis, etc. It would be class-file based (as opposed to source-code based) though, so it would not be able to find source line numbers for field definitions. Back to top TimOnGoogle Guest Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 8:41 pm    Post subject: Re: Need tool that finds all types of a certain scope... Well, basically, I'm modifying code with lots of references within classes to other classes' non-method members (usually static). Very bad design, I think. So I want to compile a list (among the hundreds of classes in this project) of all non-private non-method members, or, even better, of all references from outside all classes (not any one class, but ALL classes) to all of their non-method members. This way, I can start to remove all of these random references to public static, class static, and package static members. Can jGRASP do that kind of thing? - Tim Back to top Hemal Pandya Guest Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 2:59 pm    Post subject: Re: Need tool that finds all types of a certain scope... TimOnGoogle wrote: Quote: Well, basically, I'm modifying code with lots of references within classes to other classes' non-method members (usually static). Very bad design, I think. So I want to compile a list (among the hundreds of classes in this project) of all non-private non-method members, or, even better, of all references from outside all classes (not any one class, but ALL classes) to all of their non-method members. This way, I can start to remove all of these random references to public static, class static, and package static members. Can jGRASP do that kind of thing? - Tim Not to say jGRASP will not be a more sophisticated solution, but you might be able to meet your short-term needs with: - etags - javadoc, usuing a custom DocLet Back to top Larry Barowski Guest Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 3:42 pm    Post subject: Re: Need tool that finds all types of a certain scope... "TimOnGoogle" <fromGoogle (AT) apeshit (DOT) com> wrote Quote: Well, basically, I'm modifying code with lots of references within classes to other classes' non-method members (usually static). Very bad design, I think. So I want to compile a list (among the hundreds of classes in this project) of all non-private non-method members, or, even better, of all references from outside all classes (not any one class, but ALL classes) to all of their non-method members. This way, I can start to remove all of these random references to public static, class static, and package static members. Can jGRASP do that kind of thing? As of now, no. It will show all references between any pair of classes, and let you jump to each of the uses and method definitions. You can also search multiple files using a "grep" or "awk" regular expression, and click on each result to jump to the location. So you could probably find most public static non-final (I assume public static final refs are OK) fields by searching for the Perl regular expression: publics+statics+[a-zA-Z0-9_.]+s+[a-zA-Z0-9_]+s*; Doing that just now on the jGRASP sources turned up eight static fields that shouldn't be public. Once you find these you can make each one private and recompile the project to find the uses that are now broken. A class member search could be quite a useful feature though, and I can add it in the next few days. I'm thinking of a text search string with wildcards, and "or" and "not" operators allowed for modifiers. So in your case, you could search on: ^private * or if only showing external uses, just: * since there can't be any private external uses. Or to ignore constants, maybe: static ^final * and ^static * . In your case you probably don't care about references to public fields from outer to inner class and vice-versa, so there needs to be a way to filter those out. Let's say there will be checkboxes for Show Method Definitions Show Internal Uses Show Inner/Outer Uses Show External Uses The results would be something like SomeClass.someField External Uses: C:some_directorySomeOtherClass.java:16 C:some_directoryYetAnotherClass.java:124 and you could click on each path/line to jump to it. Send me an email and I'll let you know where to pick up an alpha version when I add this feature. Back to top TimOnGoogle Guest Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 7:22 pm    Post subject: Re: Need tool that finds all types of a certain scope... Hemal... Hmm... well, I don't use Emacs, so I looked at ctags, but am not sure how I can get vi/vim to display all tags that contain a certain java scope... don't think it's smart enough to do that. However, writing my own Doclet might be a good way of doing it. I'll look into it -- thanks! - Tim Back to top Hemal Pandya Guest Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 5:09 am    Post subject: Re: Need tool that finds all types of a certain scope... Quote: Hemal... Hmm... well, I don't use Emacs, so I looked at ctags, but am not sure how I can get vi/vim to display all tags that contain a certain java scope... don't think it's smart enough to do that. However, writing my own Doclet might be a good way of doing it. I'll look into it -- thanks! The idea I had was to just delete unwanted lines from the TAGS files (first delete all lines with '(' to delete methods, then delete lines not containing 'public'). But Doclet does sound like a better way to do it. Will you (can you, legal issues?) post the code here? Extending that into a api-grep kind of functionality sounds like a good idea. Quote: - Tim Back to top Oliver Wong Guest Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 5:16 pm    Post subject: Re: Need tool that finds all types of a certain scope... "TimOnGoogle" <fromGoogle (AT) apeshit (DOT) com> wrote Quote: For example, a tool where I can say "Show me all public statics" or "show me all private methods returning voids" etc. Any ideas? If you're fairly confident in your programming skills, you might want to actually look into a writing your own tool to do this. It's not as difficult as it sounds! Get a parser generator like JavaCC, and provide it with a grammar file describing the Java programming language (you can download this grammar file from the JavaCC website). From there, parse all the files you're interested into abstract syntax trees. Then write a visitor to walk through all the trees and to mark or otherwise store the nodes you're interested. You might want to talk to the people in comp.compilers and comp.compilers.tools.javacc if you want to take this path. - Oliver Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First         AppletTalk.com Forum Index -> Java Help All times are GMT Page 1 of 1   Jump to: Select a forum Java Newsgroups----------------Java DiscussionsWeb-based java games comp.lang.java 3D Graphics API's for Java Java: Support and criticism Java System Announcements comp.lang.java.api JavaBeans Java and CORBA Java and Databases comp.lang.java.developer Java GUI Toolkits Java Help comp.lang.java.javascript JVM, native methods and hardware comp.lang.java.misc Java Language Programming Security and Java comp.lang.java.setup Java Software Tools comp.lang.java.tech ibm.software.java.linux  Non-English Java Newsgroups----------------Java Language (German)Language Java (Français)Java (Italian)  You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2006 phpBB Group SEO toolkit © 2004-2006 webmedic.