0 Replies Latest reply on Aug 1, 2005 1:18 AM by bijou

    Help needed for javassist (CtConstructor)

      hello,
      I'm trying to realizewith Javassist a tool that can reduce an inheritance tree into a flat class (that is, if C3 inherits from C2, which in turn inherits from C1, I would like to suppress C1 and C2 and to augment C3 with its inherited attributes and methods).

      So, the key problem is to copy into a class (say C2) all the attributes and the methods inherited from a super class (say C1). The real issue appears when dealing with the constructors of C1.

      Let's consider the following situation, and the two solutions I've tried to adopt:

      public class C1 {
      private int fieldc1;
       public C1(int b) {
       fieldc1 = b;
       }
      }
      
      class C2 {
       public C2(int i) { super(i); ... }
      }
      
      //-----------
      Solution1:
      //-----------
      
      C2 must be modified into:
      
      class C2 {
       private int fieldc1;
       public C2(int i, int dummy) { ... } // dummy is added. Problem1 : how to add a parameter to C2 using Javassist, because I have evil with the use of setAttribute.
       // Problem 2: the use of the primitives types like (int, string, float..) for dummy can pose a problem of conflict in the signatures
       public C2(int i) { this(i, 0); ... } // Problem 3: How to localize the call to "super", using Javassist, in order to substitute it by "this"
       // Problem 4: How to recognize the correct constructor of the super class (if many) which corresponds to that call
       // Problem 5: How to replace super(i) by this(i, 0), using Javassist
       // I manage to change "super" into "this" with setSuperClass but I am not able to modify the signature, i.e. to change this(i) into this(i, 0)
      
      }
      
      
      //-----------
      Solution2:
      //-----------
      
      C2 must be modified into:
      
      public class C2 {
       private int fieldc1;
       public C2(int i) {
       fieldc1 = b; //Code substitution. Problem: Can we substitute a line with a portion of source code? How, using Javassist?
       ...
       }
      }




      Thank you in advance for any help.