[Soot-list] Use Soot to parse annotations stored in bytecodes

[Bernhard Berger]

Hi Xinxin,

as far as I remember Jimple has no equivalent of annotations. They can be stored using the -xml-attributes or the -print-tags command line parameters. Within Soot you have to query the tags [1] to find the annotations you are interested in.

Regards, Bernhard

[1] https://ssebuild.cased.de/nightly/soot/javadoc/soot/tagkit/Host.html
> Am 05.10.2016 um 18:22 schrieb Xinxin Jin <xinxinjin89 at gmail.com>:
> 
> Hi !
> 
> I need to parse the java annotation from Android application and generate bytecode according to the parsed annotation.
> 
> In the android source code, the annotation is defined like this. RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME means the annotation will be preserved in bytecode. 
> 
> @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
> public @interface MyAnnotation {
> 
> }
> 
> Then I use Soot to transform the android APK to Jimple using this command: 
> java -classpath ${JAVA_CLASSPATH} soot.Main -android-jars $ANDROID_JARS_PATH -allow-phantom-refs -src-prec apk -ire -f J MyTest.apk
> 
> I checked the generated Jimple files, but found no code annotated with @MyAnnotation
> 
> Can anyone tell me if Soot can't read the annotation in the bytecode or I applied incorrect command?
> 
> Thank you very much !!!
> 
> ​​
> 
> -- 
> Xinxin
> 
> 
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