Christopher Williams wrote:
Mirko Stocker wrote:
Hi!
First, I wanted to thank you for the RDT, they are really great :-)
Second, my question: I'm a student at the University of Applied
Science in Rapperswil, Switzerland. The next semester, we have to
do a software-engineering project (about ~200 working hours), and I
thought I could (try to) bring refactoring support to the RDT. But
I wanted to talk to you guys first, are you already working at
this? Do you think it's even doable? What do you think about it?
A suggestion: getting any non-trivial refactoring up and running in a
semester project is not very likely,
but how about building some infrastructure:
Build an abstraction using the RDT project model that can be used to
facilitate writing refactorings.
Some elements of this would be
- make it easy to querying the RDT model for information (eg. "give me
all method definitions", "give me all places where a singleton class is
created",...)
- an easy way to apply bulk modifications to many classes
analysis is one thing, but it should be easy to rename files, types,
elements, etc. even if these files aren't opened.
- a higher level DOM (Domain Object Model) that makes it easier to use
RDT
(checkout the DASH project and it's ideas at
http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/dash/ )
- Here's an overview of how Rename Refactoring in Smalltalk works:
http://jroller.com/page/murphee?entry=so_that_s_how_dynamic
One thing that is needed to do something like this for Ruby in
Eclipse is some way to
+ add wrappers to methods
+ injecting an Agent into the running process that can take
information from the wrappers and transport it back to Eclipse
+ some Eclipse-side receiver that can map from the events from the
Ruby-side agent to source locations, etc.
BTW: reading some of the recent Eclipse planning meeting notes, it seems
like the JDT Refactoring tools
have received "scripting support"; I guess this is a way to construct
refactorings in a higher level way
or to string several existing refactorings together. I haven't looked at
what this really does, but maybe
that's something to look into.
murphee
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