[Soot-list] What is the meaning of ActiveBody

[Arzt, Steven]

Hi Sep,

A body is a body. “ActiveBody” only means that there is a body which has been loaded and that is associated with that method. For a simplified understanding, just speak of bodies. If getActiveBody() doesn’t find a body, that may have multiple reasons:


-          The method is a phantom, is abstract, or part of an interface

-          The method should have a body, but it has not been loaded yet. Try retrieveActiveBody() instead

-          The method was created in your code, and no body has been associated with it yet

Best regards,
  Steven

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Hi Steven,

Thank you for your explanation. But I am still confused with the difference between the concept of body and ActiveBody. How could I always get the body of a SootMethod? Because when I use the SootMethod API "getActiveBody()", there are some SootMethods that have no ActiveBody.

Best regards,
Sep

2018-01-19 18:03 GMT+08:00 Arzt, Steven <steven.arzt at sit.fraunhofer.de<mailto:steven.arzt at sit.fraunhofer.de>>:
Hi Sep,

The body of a method contains the statements inside that method as well as the local variable definitions and the exception handlers.

Best regards,
  Steven

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I am novice in Java analysis and Soot. I am not familiar with the concept of ActiveBody in SootMethod. (The relevant APIs are hasActiveBody() and getActiveBody() ). Could somebody explain the meaning of ActiveBody? When a SootMethod has ActiveBody? If not, how to get access to the Body of this kind of SootMethod?

Thank you very much!

Sincerely.

Sep.

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