Question

I am new to Eclipse AST and I was wondering is it possible to get the type of the variable during the traversal of the tree? I read somewhere that it is possible to get it by setting the setResolveBindings. However, I don’t know what needs to be done in visit methods. To be concrete, I would like to get the type of the variable when processing the SimpleName visit.

Answer 1

resolveTypeBinding() from the Expression class – a superclass of SimpleName and NumberLiteral – will return an ITypeBinding. A method such as getName() will get you the type.