Question

I’m writing a C# application that reads in a source code file of language X, and populates a data structure with the classes, methods etc. that appear in the source file.

After that, using this data structure I just populated, I can call any of these three functions:

GenerateCS()
GenerateJava()
GenerateCPP()

Basically, it ports language X to either of those three languages.

My question is, how can I structure this such that I have one class GenerateCode which functions as a base class and the other generate functions derive from it?
I suppose the particular syntax details of each language would have to reside within the derived classes itself, but what stuff could I abstract to the superclass?

Answer 1

What about:

public enum Language
{
    CS,
    Java,
    CPP
}

public class CS: BaseClass { }
public class Java: BaseClass { }
public class Cpp: BaseClass { }

public class BaseClass
{
    public abstract BaseClass ConvertTo(Language lang);
}

or

public class BaseClass
{
    public abstract FromClass(BaseClass class, Language lang);
}