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| face="Arial,Helvetica"><font color="#ffffff">org.eclipse.jdt.astview |
| - AST View<br> |
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| <td width="98%"><b>Purpose</b> |
| <p>A view to visualize the AST (abstract syntax tree) of a Java |
| file open in the editor. Navigate from text selection to AST nodes and |
| from nodes to selections.<br> |
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| <td width="98%"><b>Install</b><br> |
| <p>for Eclipse 3.1 I20050118 or greater:<br> |
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| <div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ASTView |
| version 1.0.3 </span><a |
| href="org.eclipse.jdt.astview_1.0.3.zip">org.eclipse.jdt.astview_1.0.3.zip</a><span |
| style="font-weight: bold;"><br> |
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| <p>for Eclipse 3.0.x:<br> |
| </p> |
| <div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">ASTView |
| version 1.0.1 </span><a |
| href="org.eclipse.jdt.astview_1.0.1.zip">org.eclipse.jdt.astview_1.0.1.zip</a><br> |
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| <p>or use the update site<br> |
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| <div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><span |
| style="font-weight: bold;">http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/jdt-ui-home/plugins/org.eclipse.jdt.astview/AST-View-Site</span><br> |
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| <td width="98%"><b>Usage</b> |
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| <li>Open the AST view from the view menu: Window > Show View |
| > Other... Java > AST View </li> |
| <li><font color="#000000">Open a Java file in the editor </font> |
| </li> |
| <li>Click on 'Show AST of active editor' (<img |
| style="width: 16px; height: 16px;" src="setfocus.gif" alt=""> ) to |
| populate the view: The view shows the AST of the file opened in the |
| editor and will also reveal the element corresponding to the current |
| text selection<br> |
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| <li><font color="#000000">Enable 'Link with editor' (</font><img |
| style="width: 16px; height: 16px;" src="synced.gif" alt="">) to |
| automatically track the active editor and the selection in the active |
| editor.<br> |
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| <li>Double click on AST nodes to get the corresponding element |
| revealed in the editor.</li> |
| <li>Double click again to see the 'extended range' of a node, |
| that means the range including all comments associated with it (comment |
| mapper heuristic).</li> |
| <li>When the AST's underlying document has been changed use |
| 'Refresh' (<img style="width: 16px; height: 16px;" src="refresh.gif" |
| alt="">) to update the AST.<br> |
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| <b>AST View Elements</b><br> |
| <br> |
| The AST view shows the following nodes<br> |
| <img alt="AST View" src="view.gif"><br> |
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| <li>AST nodes are shown in gray color and with source range |
| information. Children of AST nodes are the node properties.<br> |
| </li> |
| <li>node properties have names that are all all capitalized. |
| Node properties represent lists of child nodes, a child node or a |
| primitive node attribute (String, int or boolean)<br> |
| </li> |
| <li>bindings are shown in blue. Only selected bindings are |
| shown</li> |
| </ul> |
| Version 1.0.1<br> |
| <div style="margin-left: 40px;">shows all binding properties, |
| comment nodes |
| attached to the root compilation unit and compiler problems detected in |
| the AST.<br> |
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| Version 1.0.2<br> |
| <div style="margin-left: 40px;">update to latest 5.0 AST API's<br> |
| comparison tray to test binding API with arguments<br> |
| test ASTs created by 'reconcile'<br> |
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| Version 1.0.3<img alt="New" src="new.gif" |
| style="width: 31px; height: 14px;"> (requires Eclipse 3.1 I20050118 or higher)<br> |
| <div style="margin-left: 40px;">bug fixes to run on I20050118<br> |
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| <span style="font-weight: bold;">Advanced Features</span><br> |
| <ul> |
| <li>You can toggle between the AST Level 2 and AST level 3 in |
| the view menu (triangle). AST level 3 is the extended and modified AST |
| that includes the new 1.5 language constructs. Note that the AST level |
| 3 is only available in 3.1 builds<br> |
| </li> |
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| <span style="font-weight: bold;">Comments and Requests</span><br> |
| <ul> |
| <li>Source is included in the plugin archive<br> |
| </li> |
| <li>Comments to <a |
| href="mailto:Martin_Aeschlimann%5Bat%5Dch.ibm.com">Martin_Aeschlimann[at]ch.ibm.com<br> |
| </a></li> |
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| Thanks and credits go to Christian Hauser: The current AST view plugin |
| is based his AST view implementation from the Zuerich Code Camp. Thanks |
| a lot!<br> |
| Version 1.0.2 credits go to Markus Keller!<br> |
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