[Soot-list] other inputs except java and class files

[Zeinab Lashkaripour]

Thanks Marc-Andre,
Your reply was nice and sufficient but I have a question:
What did you mean by library calls?

 

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 From: Marc-Andre Laverdiere-Papineau <marc-andre.laverdiere-papineau at polymtl.ca>
To: soot-list at sable.mcgill.ca 
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Soot-list] other inputs except java and class files
 
Hello,

Soot is really meant to handle Java bytecode. In other words, it can 
handle things that have Java semantics.

So if your stored procedures are in a language that has a subset of the 
Java semantics, then you can express them in Java in a 
behavior-preserving fashion.

I don't really know how they are implemented, but I know that most in 
variants of SQL. That language is minimalistic and should be 
translatable easily. However, you will need to model the library calls - 
so that will be a lot of work.

Even if you do that, there are the side-effects - what happens if you 
change the tables and the like?

So, in other words, you need to set a limit of how much you're willing 
to handle.

You may also want to consider translating directly to Jimple. That way, 
you save a processing step, but it means you're bound to soot forever 
(and maybe your requirements go in the other direction).

Marc-André Laverdière-Papineau
Doctorant - PhD Candidate

On 13-01-25 09:59 AM, Zeinab Lashkaripour wrote:
> Hello,
> I wanted to know if I need to do data flow analysis on some Stored
> Procedures of a database which way do you think would be better to choose?
> 1. Convert them with a parser to java code and use Soot?
> 2. Do the analysis by myself?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
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