[Soot-list] Is there any convenient way to track the uses of a class field?

[Bodden, Eric]

Hi Tianyin.

> I want to perform a basic data-flow tracking of a set of given variables. When the data-flow goes into a class field, I should keep tracking the uses of that field.
> 
> However, I fail to find the method I can use to get all the uses of a given SootField instance. Is there anything I'm missing?


> One thing I can definitely do is to scan all the Stmt in all the methods in all the classes before the analysis procedure (or do it lazily),  so I can record the uses of the fields in a map. But I feel this's a pretty basic feature and should have been provided already.

Yes, creating such a map would be a good idea. This is not actually a very common use case, so no there is no predefined method for it.

Cheers,
Eric
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