[cfe-dev] [libClang] Get name of method parameter or variable type

[Jacob Carlborg via cfe-dev]

On 2017-06-11 22:13, Sam Vanheer via cfe-dev wrote:
> I'm trying to get the name of method parameter and variable types, but
> the name returned by clang_getTypeSpelling contains part of the type as
> used, like "const", "&", etc.
>
> Is there any way to use libClang's API to get just the name of the type,
> without any of these additions? I'm currently removing these from the
> name manually, but it seems superfluous when Clang already has it.

To get the name of a parameter you want to use clang_getCursorSpelling. 
To get the name of the type for the tool [1] that I've built I'm using 
clang_getCursorType and then a big switch [2] on the type kind, similar 
to what Jonathan Müller suggested.

[1] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep
[2] 
https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep/blob/master/dstep/translator/Type.d#L27

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/Jacob Carlborg