[Soot-list] Generating class files from Scene Transformer

[Guru Devanla]

Actually, in short: Given a SootClass instance, can I create a .class file
and write it to disk explicitly.

Thanks
Guru


On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Guru Devanla <gdevan2 at uic.edu> wrote:

> Hello Soot-list,
>
> As I had stated on another email thread, I am extending soot to generate a
> set of structural mutants for a set of Java classes.
>
> For this to work, I provide a listener implementing SceneTransformer. In
> this internalTransform method of scene transformer, say I am swapping an
> 'unit' to a another instance on 'unit' that has some mutated code.  I would
> like to immediately write these changes as a .class file. Is there a easy
> way to do this.
>
> So, what I am looking for is this.
>
> u = <unit to be mutated>
>
> for each kind of mutant, v:
>     //say unit is in class C and in method m
>     swap(u, v)
>     Write update C to a .class file in specific folder identifying the
> mutant
>     swap (v, u)
>
>
> So, is this possible?  Or is there a better way to do this.
>
> Ultimately, I aim to have these examples integrated into soot toolkit. So,
> please do suggest an good approach
>
> Thanks
> Guru
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