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Bad Logic

[vwnc] Importing and Rewriting Methods

Hello,

In my current project a large number of classes (thousandish) need to
be imported to visual works. I've already imported the classes
separately to divide the workload and the complexity of the whole. Now
I'm attempting to import the methods. They are in chunk format files
and I used the GHChangeList tool to import the file. This seems to
work fine except that the name transformations on the classes to avoid
conflicts with existing vw classes weren't applied to the references
in the method bodies. The class substitutions outside the methods
worked fine and the methods were applied to the correct classes.

Now I have a dictionary with my rewrites for global references in my
source code. Is there a simple way to rewrite my methods to use my
rewrites? The best way I could think of is to parse the method source,
apply my rules and recompile the method.

Any ideas?

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Terry Raymond

Re: [vwnc] Importing and Rewriting Methods

I assume you are using Namespaces. If so, the GHChangeList
can take care of namespace mapping and remapping.

Terry

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> Hello,
>
> In my current project a large number of classes (thousandish) need to
> be imported to visual works. I've already imported the classes
> separately to divide the workload and the complexity of the whole. Now
> I'm attempting to import the methods. They are in chunk format files
> and I used the GHChangeList tool to import the file. This seems to
> work fine except that the name transformations on the classes to avoid
> conflicts with existing vw classes weren't applied to the references
> in the method bodies. The class substitutions outside the methods
> worked fine and the methods were applied to the correct classes.
>
> Now I have a dictionary with my rewrites for global references in my
> source code. Is there a simple way to rewrite my methods to use my
> rewrites? The best way I could think of is to parse the method source,
> apply my rules and recompile the method.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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Reinout Heeck

Re: [vwnc] Importing and Rewriting Methods

In reply to this post by Bad Logic

Bad Logic wrote:
> Now I have a dictionary with my rewrites for global references in my
> source code. Is there a simple way to rewrite my methods to use my
> rewrites? The best way I could think of is to parse the method source,
> apply my rules and recompile the method.

You could use the RB rewrite tool since that implements the low-level
work already:

in the browser select all your imported packages (don't select any classes),

then go to the 'rewrite' tool tab,

in the top pane fill in the original name of a class

in the bottom pane fill in the new name

make sure the 'method' check box is turned off

then hit 'replace'...

(Hint: in the VW settings pane you may want to turn on 'Browser'->'show
refactoring changes' before experimenting).

For thousands of classes you probably want to automate this, for that I
refer you to the implementation of RewriteCodeTool>>replace

HTH,

Reinout
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