Automatic method generator - prototype (Was: Re: Interface parser)

[Stefan Urbanek]

Hi!

I have created an example/prototype of method generator from @interfaces in .h 
files. It takes file like this:

    http://stefan.agentfarms.net/Download/GNUstep/Test.h

and turns it into a file like this:

    http://stefan.agentfarms.net/Download/GNUstep/Test.m

Sources are here:

http://stefan.agentfarms.net/Download/GNUstep/ObjectiveCParser-20040726.tar.gz

To test it, you need StepTalk Scripting framework, as it is a quick hack.
   1. edit Test.h
   2. Run "stexec test.st"
   3. look at generated Test.m

Feel fry to modify the code. Any feedback and especially patches is more than 
welcome.

Enjoy,

Stefan Urbanek

p.s.: It would be great if it was somehow incorporated in the DevelopmentKit 
framework....

On 2004-07-26 19:20:08 +0200 Stefan Urbanek <stefan@agentfarms.net> wrote:

> On 2004-07-26 17:02:33 +0200 Richard Frith-Macdonald 
> <richard@brainstorm.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > On 26 Jul 2004, at 15:56, stefan@agentfarms.net wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > There are projects parsing Objective-C header files, such as autodoc, gorm 
> > > or
> > > perhaps others not known. I would like to ask, if there is one that can I 
> > > use
> > > to query list of instance variables from header files? It does not have to 
> > > be
> > > idiot-proof, it just have to accept decent source code.
> > >
> > > I want to get list of variables + their types. Best thing would be to be 
> > > able to
> > > get additional information, perhaps present in comments after each 
> > > variable.
> > >
> > > Can be existing conde extracted from those projects and reused as 
> > > stand-alone
> > > parser class? Does anyone have exact pointers to where I should look?
> >
> > The AGSParser class from autogsdoc (base/Tools) probably does what you want
> > (as well as a lot of other stuff you most likely don't want), extracting 
> > information into
> > a property-list.  You can call -parseFile:isSource: to do this, then 
> > examine the
> > property list returned.
>
> Thank you! I'll try to do something with it. Perhaps I'll try to implement 
> light-weighted Objective-C parser framework.
>
> Stefan Urbanek

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