[cfe-dev] LibTooling vs. LibClang+Python for simple refactoring

[Manuel Klimek]

On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Schlottke, Michael <
m.schlottke at fz-juelich.de> wrote:

>  Hi Manuel,
>
>  Thanks for your fast answer.
>
>  From what you're saying it sounds like LibTooling is indeed the place
> for me to start. I don't want to reinvent the wheel by doing stuff with
> LibClang for which it wasn't made, so maybe I have to swallow the red pill
> and dig into LibTooling. I will, however, take a final look at LibClang -
> if the only parts that are missing are the rewriting functions, doing it in
> Python might still deliver first results faster...
>
>  Having said that, do you know of any efforts to have LibTooling bindings
> for Python as well? From the tools documentation website I understood that
> since LibTooling has not (yet?) reached a stable interface, no one bothered
> to start with one, but you never know before you ask ;-)
>

As far as I know nobody is working on python bindings for LibTooling - as
we're an open source project, we need to find somebody for whom it's high
enough on the prio list to contribute ;)

Cheers,
/Manuel


>
>  Regards,
>
>  Michael
>
>
>
> -------- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --------
> Von: Manuel Klimek <klimek at google.com>
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> An: dblaikie at gmail.com
> Cc: "Schlottke, Michael" <m.schlottke at fz-juelich.de>,cfe-dev Developers <
> cfe-dev at cs.uiuc.edu>,Daniel Jasper <djasper at google.com>
> Betreff: Re: [cfe-dev] LibTooling vs. LibClang+Python for simple
> refactoring
>
>
>  As David says, LibTooling was made for this task - I myself don't have a
> deep understanding of how easy those things would be to do with libclang -
> you might need to expose some interfaces that are not exposed yet (that
> might be a great contribution to the clang community if you happen to try
> that route ;)
>
>  Cheers,
> /Manuel
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 5:52 PM, dblaikie at gmail.com <dblaikie at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Tooling, specifically the clang-fixit till is one place sheet efforts are
>> being made to apply these kinds of refractoriness (specifically clang-fixit
>> would apply predefined naming convention rules, rather than user specified
>> renaming).
>>
>> One of the things that tooling might help you with would be the necessary
>> reformatting (clang-format) and build/source discovery.
>>
>>  On Sunday, December 29, 2013 3:49:06 AM, Schlottke, Michael <
>> m.schlottke at fz-juelich.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> For our research group, I need to get started with some relatively simple
>> refactoring tasks in a modestly complex C++ project. The goal is to have a
>> tool that (in the beginning) is good for at least two things:
>> - renaming member variables/methods
>> - replacing member variable access by getters/setters
>>
>> After the extremely positive experiences I've had with clang (and since
>> the IDE tools I tried failed for our project), I'd like to utilize the
>> clang infrastructure for this task. However, in the very beginning I
>> already face the problem of where I should start:
>>
>> On the one hand, LibTooling seems to be the interface of choice when it
>> comes to refactoring code (it's one of the canonical examples on http://<http://clang.llvm.org/docs/Tooling.html>
>> clang.llvm.org <http://clang.llvm.org/docs/Tooling.html>/docs/<http://clang.llvm.org/docs/Tooling.html>
>> Tooling.html <http://clang.llvm.org/docs/Tooling.html>). On the other
>> hand libclang seems to be easier to use, has Python bindings, and from the
>> outset looks like it could be already sufficient for the task at hand.
>>
>> Do you have any experience/recommendations for which library is the one
>> to use in this case?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Michael
>>
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