Hello paul Thank you for your email
Yes the inner class mechanism works, but I want to declare a parent class dynamically with static inner classes added dynamically With inner classes I jave access to the module node and the source unit. Where do I get these for a parent level class? On Mon, 12 Apr, 2021, 16:52 Paul King, <pa...@asert.com.au> wrote: > The Builders and Sortable AST do something similar and use: > > https://github.com/apache/groovy/blob/master/src/main/java/org/apache/groovy/ast/tools/ClassNodeUtils.java#L129 > > > On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 8:36 PM Saravanan Palanichamy <chava...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello >> >> What is the right way to add a new class through an AST during the Groovy >> compilation phase? What I am trying to do is this >> >> * Compile N different classes >> * During the compile process, create a new class for each of these N >> classes that denotes how it should be serialized (for example) >> * Add these classes as sub classes of one master class, called Types >> >> For example:- >> >> /**************** These are my classes ****************************/ >> Class Car { >> } >> >> class Cycle { >> } >> >> >> /***************** This class must be auto generated with all of its >> inner classes ***************/ >> class Types { >> static class CarSeralizer extends TypeReference<Car> {} >> >> static class CycleSerializer extends TypeReference<Cycle> {} >> } >> >> How do I achieve this through ASTs ? >> >> regards >> Saravanan >> >
