[Soot-list] Pretty print

[Cristiane Queiroz]

Yes, I want to print Java/AspectJ before the weaving.
What's the easiest way for me to do that?


2009/6/15 Eric Bodden <eric.bodden at mail.mcgill.ca>

> Hi Christiane.
>
> Depending on what you are trying to do, this may be hard to
> impossible. abc works by (1) transforming Java classes into Jimple and
> AspectJ aspects into something called an AspectInfo. Then, abc (2)
> weaves the Jimple code according to the AspectInfo and (3) produces
> bytecode from the woven Jimple.
>
> Therefore you can only print out Java or AspectJ code before step (2),
> i.e. before the weaving because no Java/AspectJ representation of the
> woven program exists. If you want to print the un-woven Java/AspecTJ
> code, I can tell you how to do that, but I fear that you are trying to
> accomplish something else.
>
> If you want to convert the woven Jimple code back to Java you can try
> to do so using the command line options "+soot -f dava -soot" to abc.
> This is known to be buggy, though, and it will only produce plain Java
> code. In other words, the generated code contains no pieces of advice
> or pointcuts etc. but only appropriate advice methods.
>
> Eric
>
> 2009/6/15 Cristiane Queiroz <criscq at gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm developing a tool to extract Java exception handling to AspectJ
> aspects,
> > and I decided to implement this tool as an abc extension. I have studied
> a
> > little bit about the inner workings of abc and its main components (Soot
> and
> > Polyglot), and noticed that it is easy to change the internal structure
> of a
> > class through Jimple. However, my tool needs to output Java and AspectJ
> code
> > and I couldn't find any example of how to do that. All the examples focus
> on
> > producing Java bytecode.
> >
> >  I would like to know if there is any way to pretty print the Jimple code
> in
> > Java and/or AspectJ. Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Cristiane
> >
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>
> --
> Eric Bodden
> Sable Research Group, McGill University
> Montréal, Québec, Canada
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