Question

Having a problem with the ast.newSimpleName() method.

I am not able to create a SimpleName of the sort ‘SomeJava.class’. But the method works fine for names like ‘SWT.None’ or ‘SomeJava.None’.

Here is the code :

MethodInvocation loggerInstance = ast.newMethodInvocation();

loggerInstance.setExpression(ast.newSimpleName("Logger"));
loggerInstance.setName(ast.newSimpleName("getLogger"));

String[] name1 = {className.replace(".java", ""),"None"};
String[] name2 = {className.replace(".java", ""), "class"};

loggerInstance.arguments().add(ast.newName(name1)); // This works
loggerInstance.arguments().add(ast.newName(name2)); // This doesn't

Should i use any thing else other than SimpleName for this. Thanks in advance.

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Edit : This is the statement i want to construct:

    Logger.getLogger(ClientTest.class);

During my analysis, i found out that the problem arises when using the “class” literal. Not sure how to overcome this.

    ast.newName("class");
    ast.newSimpleName("class");

Answer 1

Got it from ASTView. Finally downloaded and installed it. 🙂

It should be a generated as a TypeLiteral, not as a SimpleName/Name.

TypeLiteral typeLiteral = ast.newTypeLiteral();
typeLiteral.setType(ast.newSimpleType(ast.newSimpleName(className)));