Thanks paul, This worked like a charm. I used the module node from one of the other classes and added this parent level class along with all its static inner classes
regards Saravanan On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 5:51 PM Paul King <[email protected]> wrote: > It depends on how you have this set up. If you are compiling your other > classes at the same time, I'd just get the module node from one of those > classes and add your new class to it. > > Cheers, Paul. > > > On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 9:34 PM Saravanan Palanichamy <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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, <[email protected]> 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 < >>> [email protected]> 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 >>>> >>>
