[Soot-list] Trying to build call graph from with a java program

[varun]

Hi Eric,
 I installed soot eclipse plugin and also went through these documents
already. The problem is soot is failing while constructing callgraph.
So be precise,even after setting "all-reachable" mode,
CallGraphPack.internalApply() calls  entryPoints.addAll(
EntryPoints.v().all() );
which in turns result in ret.addAll( application() ) .. addMethod(
ret, Scene.v().getMainClass(), sigMain ); .. It is here when I get
exception for "couldn't find method main(*)" .
 Thanks
Varun



On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Eric Bodden
<bodden at st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
>
> Varun you should consult the tutorials:
> http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/soot/tutorial/index.html
>
> In particular, the survivor's guide: http://www.brics.dk/SootGuide/
> Also, you can use the eclipse plugin to generate some code stubs for
> you which you can build on:
> http://www.bodden.de/2008/08/30/soot-eclipse-plugin-tutorial/
>
> All the information you need is in there. When you use Soot correctly,
> adding transformers and calling Soot's main method then the call graph
> can simply be accessed using Scene.v().getCallGraph().
>
> Hope that helps,
> Eric
>
>
> 2009/9/2 vasrivastava at hssworld.com srivastava <varun0007 at gmail.com>:
> > Hi Khilan,
> >  My observations inline after trying out your suggestions.
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Khilan Gudka <khilan at doc.ic.ac.uk> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Varun,
> >> From what I understand, you can get the "call graph" for a method by using the CallGraph.edgesOutOf(Unit) and CallGraph.edgesOutOf(MethodOrMethodContext) methods. These allow you to traverse the call graph, from a particular statement
> >
> >>>>Varun : CallGraph and TransitiveTargets methods are not static . So to call them I need a callgraph on first place I guess [Am i missing something ?]
> >>
> >> or method respectively. Furthermore, the class TransitiveTargets can be used to get all methods reachable from a method or statement. So, for what you are trying to do, you could potentially iterate through all the methods in a class using SootClass.getMethods() and then use the CallGraph.edgesOutOf methods or TransitiveTargets class to traverse the "call graph" from that specific method.
> >> Alternatively, you could use the all-reachable:true flag to the cg phase (i.e. -p cg all-reachable:true). From the phase options documentation:
> >
> >>>>Varun : to get call grpah I am trying out --- HashMap opt = new HashMap();
> > opt.put("verbose","true");
> > opt.put("all-reachable","true");
> >                                                  CHATransformer.v().transform("",opt);
> >      But this is also failing with "couldn't find method main(*)" Exception.
> >>
> >> "Setting this option to true makes Soot consider all methods of application classes to be reachable, so call edges are generated for all of them."
> >> Then you could iterate through the entry points (EntryPoints.v().all()) and then use the edgesOutOf methods or TransitiveTargets class as mentioned above).
> >> Hope that helps
> >> --
> >> Khilan Gudka
> >> PhD Student
> >> Department of Computing
> >> Imperial College
> >> http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~khilan/
> >> On 31 Aug 2009, at 03:38, vasrivastava at hssworld.com srivastava wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Eric,
> >>   I want to perform some analysis on different set of classes and then compare the results. The ideal thing for me to do is , create some application specific datastructure for each of the sets and then compare them inside my program.
> >>  To achieve this, on the high level I am trying to follow the given algorithm
> >> 1) Load a class from set A into soot using loadandsupport api
> >> 2) Perform interprocess data flow analysis for each of the methods individually
> >> 3) Perform same operation for a class of set B
> >> 4) Compare results of set A and set B and then print out final results.
> >> Now for this analysis I need to analyse all the public methods individually in interprocedural fashion [ as all the public methods can be called by any application outside the class]
> >>   But right now I am not able to construct a call graph for each method individually, so that i can run my inter procedural dataflow analysis on that call graph.
> >>  Please suggest me the right way to do this , as I guess I am on the wrong way :(.
> >> Thanks
> >> Varun
> >>
> >> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Eric Bodden <bodden at st.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi.
> >>>
> >>> >  I am trying to build call graph for a class from a java program. I need to
> >>> > take each method the class and build a call graph as if that method is the
> >>> > main method. I haven't got any way of declaring any arbitrary method as
> >>> > reachableMethod and continue call graph construction.
> >>>
> >>> From what you write, it seems like you would want to play around with
> >>> the class EntryPoints. I don't understand why you are adding "main"
> >>> methods to every class. How would that solve your problem? What
> >>> exactly is the problem that your analysis should solve anyway?
> >>>
> >>> Eric
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Eric Bodden
> >>> Software Technology Group
> >>> Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
> >>
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