spoon-core-5.8.0

This summer release mainly fixes a lot of bugs, in particular in the resolution of TypeParameters which were introduced in previous version.
New experimental features are also introduced in this release.

Thanks all our amazing contributors 👍

New features

• experimental: Add experimental support for model change listeners. (PR: #1417)
• import: Sort imports alphabetically. (PR: #1434)
• metamodel
  • CtTypeMember extends CtNamedElement. (PR: #1452)
  • Add a method to insert a statement at a specific position. (PR: #1423)
  • Annotes getter and setter with a CtRole. (PR: #1377)
  • Add first metamodel support. (PR: #1378)
• role: Add field annotation with a role. (PR: #1368)
• template: SubstitutionVisitor can replace substrings in NamedElements and References. (PR: #1441)
• Add support for replacement by multiple elements CtElement#replace(Collection). (PR: #1369)
• Add generic type information in shadow classes. (PR: #1352)
• The template engine supports insertion of literals. (PR: #1403)

Bug Fixes

• Ignore null items in ReplacementVisitor. (PR: #1400)
• CtComment#getContent should never return "null". (PR: #1442)
• Fix a bug with import static. (PR: #1412)
• Fix issue related to overridden methods in getAllMethods. (PR: #1375)
• Fix issue in ClassTypingContext#isOverriding. (PR: #1411)
• Fix bug related to CtTypeParameterReference and getDeclaration. (PR: #1383)
• Refactor SubstitutionVisitor to support null parameter values. (PR: #1359)
• Bug with escaped literal. (PR: #1394)
• Use getTypeDeclaration in CtTypeParameterReference. (PR: #1387)
• Ignore only ClassCastException in query code. (PR: #1462)
• Bugs related to continue algorithm of ClassTypingContext. (PR: #1379)
• Fix regression related to ReferenceBuilder and generics. (PR: #1373)
• Fix stackoverflow in ReferenceBuilder. (PR: #1367)
• Calls to default constructors outside the factory should still be possible, and a default factory is made available. (PR: #1448)
• Fix NPE with union catch inside lambda in noclasspath. (PR: #1416)
• comment: Printing of comments on MS Windows. (PR: #1435)
• factory: Create type reference from inner class. (PR: #1361)
• import: Fix NPE with import scanner. (PR: #1437)
• prettyprinter: Throws SpoonException with info instead of NPE in Pretty Printer on missing variable declaration. (PR: #1451)
• reflection: Add annotation value in the model. (PR: #1384)
• role: Fix wrong roles. (PR: #1397)
• template
  • Clarifies the contract of proxy template parameters. (PR: #1457)
  • Substitution#insertAll should bypass Template methods. (PR: #1348)
• printer: Reset import context on reset. (PR: #1360)

Documentation

• community: Add the integrator rules. (PR: #1413)
• Explicit the difference between isOverriding and isSubsignature. (PR: #1449)
• Update roadmap (inline comments are supported + link to 'features' issues). (PR: #1440)
• Add cool idea in roadmap (by @tdurieux). (PR: #1433)
• Improve explanation of getDeclaration. (PR: #1429)
• Update roadmap. (PR: #1432)
• Adds AutoJMH in the ecosystem page. (PR: #1401)
• Clean bad comment. (PR: #1380)

Refactoring

• Change Substitution#createTypeFromTemplate return type to avoid cast. (PR: #1464)
• Add not-null check. (PR: #1443)
• Explicit handlingErrorPolicy of JDT in noClasspath and normal mode. (PR: #1424)
• Printing of lists in Spoon pretty printer. (PR: #1428)
• GetLabelledStatement is a derived propertty shared between CtContinue and CtBreak. (PR: #1398)
• role: Rename CtPathRole to CtRole and add new roles. (PR: #1372)

Tests

• Use the factory instead of the constructor. (PR: #1395)
• Add test for template substitution of enum values. (PR: #1389)
• Add test for template substitution of variable access. (PR: #1390)
• Add test for template substitution of return. (PR: #1391)
• Add test for SubstitionVisitor class access. (PR: #1388)
• Test Template array access. (PR: #1353)

Other

• Remove old useless file. (PR: #1421)
• Change revapi config for more relevant messages. (PR: #1392)
• Removes one checkstyle rule. (PR: #1336)
• Add new architectural rule. (PR: #1355)
• travis: Fix issue by using the last image on Travis #1414. (PR: #1418)
• Update release numbers in documentation. (PR: #1351)
• Prepare for next development iteration.
• Remove deprecated methods in ImportScanner. (PR: #1366)

Authors

Name	Nb Commit
Pavel Vojtechovsky	23
Simon Urli	16
Martin Monperrus	12
Thomas Durieux	11
Benjamin DANGLOT	1

spoon-core-5.7.0

New features

• Add support for Java 8 receiver parameters. (PR: #1298)
• Function to find all executables with the same signature. (PR: #1291)
• Add new filter for finding lamdas (class LambdaFilter). (PR: #1315)
• Add new function to collect subtypes (class SubInheritanceHierarchyFunction). (PR: #1290)
• Add refactoring class CtParameterRemoveRefactoring. (PR: #1317)
• Add SubInheritanceHierarchyResolver as helper for query mechanisms. (PR: #1309)
• New filter ExecutableReferenceFilter. (PR: #1318)
• Add public method MethodTypingContext#adaptMethod. (PR: #1288)
• Add method GenericTypeAdapter#getAdaptationScope. (PR: #1287)
• Add CtMethod#isOverriding(CtMethod). (PR: #1220)
• Add support for typing analysis of generic types. (PR: #1218)
• Add support for type erasure (CtType/CtTypeReference#getTypeErasure()). (PR: #1216)
• Support for better analysis of generic type arguments (TypeReference#getTypeParameterReference() and TypeFactory#createReference(type,includingFormalTypeParams)). (PR: #1237)
• SuperInheritanceHierarchyFunction supports references and listener. (PR: #1242)
• Add support for renaming local variables. (PR: #1005)
• comment: Add an AST node for the javadoc tags. (PR: #1310)
• template: The template engine supports substitution of method names in method calls. (PR: #1325)

Bug Fixes

• Fix bug in CtExecutableReference#getActualMethod when parameters are generically typed. (PR: #1277)
• Fix bug in getActualMethod() due to missing information in CtTypeParameterReference. (PR: #1286)
• Improve line preservation mode. (PR: #1335)
• Auto-import works for compilation units with multiple classes in the same file. (PR: #1322)
• Fix import bug with java.lang.subpackage. (PR: #1327)
• Fix NPE in isTypeInCollision. (PR: #1326)
• Improve ImportScanner to support variables called "java". (PR: #1321)
• Fix bug in qualified names in a special case due to missing information in JDT. Fix #1307. (PR: #1312)
• Fix bug in import inference (auto-import mode). Close #1306. (PR: #1308)
• In noClasspath, a type without import should be considered in the same package as the current class. (PR: #1302)
• Fix SuperInheritanceHierarchyFunction in noClassPath mode. (PR: #1281)
• Fix AnnotationFactory#create. (PR: #1340)
• Fix JDT error when input resource contains an entirely commented class. (PR: #1279)
• Fix special case not handled in factory.Annotation().annotate(). (PR: #1278)
• Fix a couple of bugs in recent feature "generic type adaptation". (PR: #1275)
• Fix regression regarding actual type arguments resolving. (PR: #1273)
• #setParent is not a normal metamodel setter, and is excluded from SpoonTestHelpers#getAllSetters. (PR: #1261)
• TestFactorySubFactory must only check public factory methods. (PR: #1263)
• CtBlock#getLastStatement is a @DerivedProperty. (PR: #1262)
• Fix a bug in wrongly qualified type in executable references. (PR: #1259)
• Fix issue #1246. (PR: #1251)
• Fix NPE in CtElement#getMetadataKeys. Closes #1239. (PR: #1240)

Documentation

• Add pointer to new Template example. (PR: #1343)
• Document and refactor TemplateMatcher. (PR: #1319)
• Update examples links from gforge.inria.fr to github.com. (PR: #1226)
• Adds InspectorGuidget in ecosystem page. (PR: #1304)
• Clarifies page on architectural rule checking with Spoon. (PR: #1301)
• Fix link mix. (PR: #1297)
• Fix javadoc of SuperInheritanceHierarchyFunction. (PR: #1289)
• Update doc with release 5.6.0 information. (PR: #1227)

Refactoring

• Remove or update deprecation related to queries & filters. (PR: #1300)
• Improve ImportScanner design, add getAllImports. (PR: #1339)
• Renamed confusing duplicate classes. (PR: #1333)
• Improve PrinterHelper (less duplication, more encapsulation). (PR: #1332)
• Handle some rare limit cases. (PR: #1331)
• Remove call to deprecated File#toURL. (PR: #1313)
• Change generic type bound. (PR: #1314)
• Replace string literals by constants. (PR: #1316)
• Remove deprecated method computeImports. (PR: #1311)
• Remove useless 'final' modifier in interface methods. (PR: #1334)
• MethodTypingContext#isOverriding/isSameSignature/isSubSignature moved to ClassTypingContext. (PR: #1299)
• MethodTypingContext#adaptMethod moved to ClassTypingContext. (PR: #1296)
• AllTypeMembersFunction accepts now CtTypeInformation as parameter. (PR: #1285)
• Use new CtMethod#isOverriding in method overriding/overriden filters. (PR: #1276)
• Refactor and test initProperties. (PR: #1260)
• Remove unused field. (PR: #1253)
• Adds an architural rule for helper classes with static methods. (PR: #1247)
• CtFormalTypeDeclarer extends CtTypeMember. (PR: #1235)
• Refactor *VariableReferenceFunction around LocalVariableReferenceFunction. (PR: #1193)

Performance

• Use factory.Type().OBJECT to save memory. (PR: #1241)
• Use TypeFactory#OBJECT. (PR: #1231)

Tests

• Improve TemplateMatcher test. (PR: #1323)

Other

• Checkstyle checks that the end of lines are consistent (unix-style \n only). (PR: #1344)
• Fix broken revapi reports due to regression in revapi-reporter-text 0.8.0.
• Revapi check should fail only for breaking changes. (PR: #1282)
• Fix revapi bug. (PR: #1280)

Unknown

• Add 'getBinaryFiles' to CompilationUnit. Fixes #1230. (PR: #1232)
• Prepare for next development iteration.

Authors

Name	Nb Commit
Pavel Vojtechovsky	38
Simon Urli	18
Martin Monperrus	17
Thomas Durieux	1
Marcel Steinbeck	1

spoon-core-5.6.0

Thanks all contributors to this new release, and special thanks to @pvojtechovsky who continue to do an amazing work on Spoon!

New features

• Add filter helpers (FieldReferenceFunction, FieldScopeFunction, SubtypeFilter). (PR: #1141)
• ParentFunction is able to terminate early. (PR: #1211)
• Introduces CtScannerFunction as basic infrastructure for advanced functions and queries. (PR: #1180)
• Add support for CtScannerListener in EarlyTerminatingScanner. (PR: #1210)
• Automatic explicit ThisAccess for fields. (PR: #1192)
• CtLambda#getMethod() and fix of #1159. (PR: #1164)
• Add helper for query variables (VariableReferenceFunction, VariableScopeFunction). (PR: #1114)
• Add helper for query to get parents of element. (PR: #1153)
• Add query functions AllTypeMembersFunction and SuperInheritanceHierarchyFunction. (PR: #1195)
• Add filter helpers (LocalVariableReferenceFunction, LocalVariableScopeFunction). (PR: #1144)
• Add filtering helpers (CatchVariableReferenceFunction, CatchVariableScopeFunction). (PR: #1145)
• Add filtering helpers (ParameterReferenceFunction, ParameterScopeFunction). (PR: #1136)
• Add support for early terminating queries with CtQuery#first(). (PR: #1138)
• Add support for getting all children with CtQuery#filterChildren(null). (PR: #1140)
• Add CtQuery#select(Filter). (PR: #1142)
• Add query factory. (PR: #1093)
• Add metamodel method CtTypeParameter#getTypeParameterDeclarer(). (PR: #1217)
• Reusable and efficient CtQueries. (PR: #1090)
• filter: Template matchers can be used as filter. (PR: #1110)

Bug Fixes

• CtMethod#isDefaultMethod. (PR: #1165)
• Fix wrong behavior for special cases in removeStatement. Closes #1221. (PR: #1224)
• Inner interfaces should be properly handled in CtTypeReferenceImpl#canAccess. (PR: #1189)
• LocalVariableScopeFunction handles CtFor, CtTryWithResource, local classes. (PR: #1154)
• Fix regression with a lambda expression extends Function. (PR: #1178)
• CtExecutableReference#isOverriding correctly handles anonymous classes. (PR: #1219)
• Fix autoimport regression. (PR: #1162)
• Bug in isSubtypeOf (broken contract X.isSubtypeOf(X)==true). (PR: #1157)
• Improve static import support in auto-import mode. (PR: #1155)
• Fix regression (NPE) in DefaultJavaPrettyPrinter. (PR: #1214)
• GetSuperClass does not throw exception in noClassPath mode. (PR: #1128)
• Fix NPE when Spoon in executed from an empty working dir. (PR: #1208)
• Visibility detection issue in CtElement #1099. (PR: #1102)
• CtQuery: CCE on Query#forEach call of CtConsumer#apply. (PR: #1126)
• comment: Support comment on string concatenation. (PR: #1124)
• noclasspath: Fix the qualified name of partial qualified reference (inner class). (PR: #1201)

Documentation

• Adds hyperlink to the Spoon paper.
• Announces the OW2 membership. (PR: #1151)
• Update ecosystem (one single file to maintain + added syringe). (PR: #1147)
• Add links to changelogs (#1133). (PR: #1133)
• Add support files for FOSDEM'17. (PR: #1148)
• Remove outdated last-updated information on pages. (PR: #1177)
• More specific doc about the release process. (PR: #1131)
• Fixes broken menu (#1122). (PR: #1122)
• Fix javadoc JDK8 rules. (PR: #1112)
• Prepare internal doc for the new release. (PR: #1109)
• license: Update license year. (PR: #1130)

Refactoring

• Improve and simplify usage of PotentialVariableDeclarationFunction. (PR: #1194)
• Remove FieldScopeFunction. (PR: #1186)
• Remove deprecated elements from version 5.4.0. (PR: #1135)

Performance

• Improve performance of DirectReferenceFilter. (PR: #1132)

Tests

• Reduce the scope of the testSettersAreAllGood test. (PR: #1196)

Other

• Only publish revapi report if the PR is edited or opened. (PR: #1161)
• Revapi configuration and helper scripts to detect API breaking changes. (PR: #1115)
• travis: Travis must check that javadoc is well-formed. (PR: #1107)

Unknown

• Prepare for next development iteration.

Authors

Name	Nb Commit
Pavel Vojtechovsky	29
Simon Urli	17
Martin Monperrus	5
Thomas Durieux	3
Marcel Steinbeck	1

spoon-core-5.5.0

Thanks to all contributors!

New features

• New query architecture with support for Java8 queries. (PR: #1018)
• Allow spoon to do static imports for methods and fields. (PR: #1040)
• Interface to Exclude Compilation Units From CtModel. (PR: #1037)
• API: Add CtTypeMember.getTopLevelType(). (PR: #1004)
• CoreFactory
  • Add create(Class) so as to create elements by reflection. (PR: #949)
• evaluation: Simplify classes based on static evaluation (first support). (PR: #1003)
• filter: Compute filtered types by reflection from parameter of method matches. (PR: #1015)
• getDeclaredOrInheritedField: Add CtTypeInformation.getDeclaredOrInheritedField(String fieldName). (PR: #967)
• model: Add interface CtBodyHolder. (PR: #943)
• position: Improve the element position. (PR: #984)
• snippet:
  • Add support for compiling statements with return. (PR: #947)
  • Print Comment in CtSnippet. (PR: #1101)

Bug Fixes

• DefaultJavaPrettyPrinted: Fix bug when printing implicit accesses to static fields in autoimport. (PR: #913)
• JDTBasedSpoonCompiler: Fix annotation bug when templates are used. (PR: #934)
• NPE: Fix NullPointerException resulting from variable accesses in constructors. (PR: #1098)
• Fixed name of test class. (PR: #1037)
• Generate expected EOL even on Windows. (PR: #977)
• No exception when writing to log. (PR: #920)
• Test: APITest.testSetterInNodes() was not testing anything . fix #972. (PR: #1022)
• Close input stream after creating a compilation unit to prevent TooManyOpenFilesException. (PR: #1097)
• Fix ReferenceBuilder#getLambdaExecutableReference to return the innermost lambda #1100. (PR: #1103)
• Set the type of a parameter declared in a lambda to Object instead of ommitting them when unknown. (PR: #1108)
• Fixed formatting. (PR: #1037)
• Fix inconsistencies between interface contract and double implementations of getAllExecutables. (PR: #1019)
• Removes unused imports. (PR: #988)
• Clean exception when Spoon is given a wrong path for input resource. (PR: #1057)
• SignaturePrinter: Overrides visitCtAnnotationMethod in SignaturePrinter. (PR: #1030)
• ThisAccess
  • The type access associated to a this must be the type containing the this. (PR: #1008)
  • Shorter this access. (PR: #1031)
• access path: Fix regression with type parameters in access paths. (PR: #1007)
• annotations: Fix Dropwazrd regression by fixing substituteAnnotation. (PR: #1032)
• array: The qualified name of an array is not java.lang.reflect.Array. (PR: #995)
• clone: Clone preserves comments and implicitness. (PR: #1028)
• comments
  • Fixes pretty-printing bug for inline arrays with comments. (PR: #912)
  • Fix bug in comments in array initialization. (PR: #1088)
  • Fix a bug concerning multiple comments before a catch block. (PR: #1074)
  • Handle stacked comments in package-info.java. (PR: #1011)
  • Add support of comments in snippets. (PR: #930)
• enum: GetAllMethods also returns the methods of Enum. (PR: #1016)
• equal
  • Regenerate EqualVisitor based on new Scanner, which fixes a number of bugs incl. #978. (PR: #993)
  • Actual type references must be part of equality. (PR: #997)
• getTypeDeclaration
  • First lookup in sources, then in classpath. (PR: #962)
  • GetTypeDeclaration('?') should point to Object. (PR: #973)
• imports
  • Correct interplay between fully-qualified types and variable names . (PR: #1026)
  • Fix regressions with static imports and inner classes or enums. (PR: #1048)
  • Fix a static import bug, ripple of adb2fd7. (PR: #1060)
• importscanner: Fix regression in fuly-qualified mode. (PR: #1052)
• isAssignableFrom: Deprecate isAssignableFrom that is totally confusing, and for which there is an alternative. (PR: #948)
• isSubtypeOf: Spoon can resolve anonymous references. (PR: #953)
• launcher: Easy way to parse a complete class with package. (PR: #982)
• log: Filter out some JDT errors in noclasspath. (PR: #926)
• model
  • Fix NPE when compilation units array contains null elements. (PR: #928)
  • Complex access paths for types with visibility are now correctly handled. (PR: #974)
• newinstance: Forces usage of the newest version of the class. (PR: #909)
• parent: Stops furious useless exceptions. (PR: #963)
• performance
  • Improves performance of VirtualFolder.getAllFiles() and getSubFolders(). (PR: #915)
  • Keep shadow classes. (PR: #898)
• position: Implicit elements do not have position. (PR: #1086)
• precompile: Specifies and fixes precompile option. (PR: #923)
• pretty-print
  • Fix pretty-printing of 'this' access for inner classes. (PR: #1061)
  • The annotation values are now pretty-printed in the original order. (PR: #1067)
  • Parentheses are missing when pretty-pretting some ternary expressions. (PR: #927)
• reference: Fix reference in ctconstructor. (PR: #1095)
• scanner
  • Add missing scan properties based on a new powerful specification. (PR: #966)
• serialization: Fix serialization issue in Factory. (PR: #955)
• shadow: No ClassNotFoundException when building shadow classes by reflection. (PR: #1012)
• subtype: Removes CtTypeImpl#isSubtypeOf that is wrong and anyway overridden by all subclasses. (PR: #954)
• template: Check that Template is on source path of builder. (PR: #976)
• test
  • Much stronger contracts for setter spec and tests. (PR: #975)
  • Fixes OS-dependent path in LauncherTest. (PR: #919)

Documentation

• Add --noclasspath for reducing first-usage friction.
• Clarifies responsibility of CtNamedElement. (PR: #1062)
• Adds adt poster and InDesign source. (PR: #1051)
• Fix markdown issue in code_elements.md.
• Improve readability and wording of doc/comments.md. (PR: #1079)
• Fix broken link.
• Improve navigability and first contact.
• Update README.md (compiling, ecosystem, contributors). (PR: #1089)
• Adds doc about constructor calls and the associated reference. (PR: #994)
• Improve template documentation. (PR: #1068)
• Adds documentation for explaining the code elements. (PR: #922)
• SignaturePrinter: Improves doc of SignaturePrinter. (PR: #987)
• info: Fix broken link to mailing list.
• Fixes a typo in doc/gradle.md. (PR: #1078)
• Fix issues related to javadoc in java 8. (PR: #1105)

Refactoring

• Same algorithm for building sources, templates and snippet. (PR: #946)
• Remove code duplication and fix inconsistencies of class Substitution. (PR: #992)
• Removes dead code. (PR: #989)
• Check everywhere that Template is on source path of builder. (PR: #979)
• Removes old unseless code. (PR: #983)
• Remove unused printer code of visitCtCatchVariable. (PR: #965)
• JDTBatchCompiler arg.sources not needed. (PR: #958)
• Regenerate files with short this for future clean diffs. (PR: #1039)
• Avoid creation of JDT hacking TMP files. (PR: #944)
• JDTBatchCompiler.getUnits() parameter not required anymore. (PR: #942)
• Remove old unmaintained/broken code. (PR: #937)
• All factory methods are also in main Factory for usability and discoverability. (PR: #1082)
• Removes duplicated code. (PR: #936)
• Remove unused imports. (PR: #935)
• Reuse existing CU in JDTBatchCompiler.getUnits(). (PR: #933)
• Introduce JDTBasedSpoonCompiler.buildModel to remove code duplication. (PR: #931)
• Improves JDTCommentBuilder. (PR: #924)
• classloader: Adds test for classloader. (PR: #897)
• printerContext: Assure correct restore of state. (PR: #999)
• processingmanager: Removes duplicated code, improves readability. (PR: #1054)
• Deprecate reference filtering that is now handled by standard element filtering. (PR: #1013)
• Renamed label from units to unitLoop. (PR: #1037)
• Remove dependency to CompilationUnitDeclaration. (PR: #1037)
• Use filter to exclude instead of accapt units. (PR: #1037)
• We must always have a source + exception handling. (PR: #996)
• Added an interface used to filter particular CompilationUnitDeclaraions. (PR: #1037)

Performance

• Cache inputClassLoader corresponding to sourceClasspath. (PR: #990)
• Improve performance of FindCommentParentScanner. (PR: #917)

Tests

• ParentContractTest: Improves contract about setting parents. (PR: #956)
• TemplateMatcher: Add tests for named template matchers (uncovered cases). (PR: #1092)
• VisitorPartialEvaluator: Add tests for VisitorPartialEvaluator. (PR: #939)
• metamodel: Enforce the package design of the metamodel. (PR: #945)
• superClass: Adds test that verifies the compilation of complex superclass references that use access paths with tricky visibility. (PR: #971)
• template: Add test for super interface templates. (PR: #1020)
• templatematcher: Add a new Junit test and dynamic assertion for TemplateMatcher. (PR: #1034)
• Add test for method parameter templating. (PR: #1064)
• Add tests and doc for template engine. (PR: #1072)
• Add a test to check if TemplateMatcher can match two equivalent snippets. (PR: #1059)
• Reduces I/O footprint (and found two IO bugs on the way). (PR: #969)
• Add coverage for templates (and unify API thanks to this). (PR: #1049)
• Add missing @test. (PR: #950)
• One test was not named correctly, hence was not run by Maven in CI, hiding a bug. (PR: #1036)
• Update CompilationTest to match latest compiler changes. (PR: #940)
• Remove unused imports. (PR: #941)
• replacevisitor: Add a strong test and fix many bugs accordingly. (PR: #957)
• Added a test for new compilation unit filter. (PR: #1037)

Other

• changelog: Improve the changelog generator. (PR: #1087)
• jenkins: Purge local repository of all Spoon snapshots. (PR: #1065)
• Change eclipse jdt core dependency now depends on Maven central only. (PR: #1063)
• Update version of spoon-maven-plugin. (PR: #906)
• build.sh: Update minimum version to fix problem with repo.eclipse.org.
• coverage: Update coveralls version. (PR: #1001)
• release: Update version number in documen...

spoon-core-5.4.0

Important changes

• CtElement are not comparable anymore (no natural order), they cannot be put in raw TreeSet (PR: #844)
• The processing and scanning order has changed, it now follows the source code order (Issue: #681) (PR: #841)

New feature

• ast
  • Always a block for CtIf and CtLoop. (PR: #805)
• cttype : New method to know whether a given method is part of a CtType. (PR: #880)
• position : Defines a default source position for all elements. (PR: #861)

Fixes

• factory : Handles null parameter in Type#createReference(Class) and isSubTypeOf. (Closes #825). (Issue: #825) (PR: #837)
• getDeclaration : Incorrect between getReference and getDeclaration for local variables. (PR: #888)
• Fixes potential NullPointerException in JDTTreeBuilderQuery. (PR: #887)
• Enables parallel tests. (PR: #838)
• GetAllMethods in noclasspath return when encounter an unknown class. (PR: #864)
• Better getDeclaration of CtLocalVariable (Fixes #868). (Issue: #868) (PR: #873)
• compilation : Always uses the content of the ast to compile the ast (fixes #878). (Issue: #878) (PR: #879)
• exception : Improves snippet compilation error message. (PR: #858)
• if : Print the else body when the body is not a block (closes #881). (Issue: #881) (PR: #883)
• isLocalType : Proper support for creating internal classes (fixes #776). (Issue: #776) (PR: #860)
• literal
  • Fix literal type. (PR: #891)
  • Set the type of the CtLiteral via the CodeFactory. (PR: #829)
• loop : Always use CtBlock in CtForeach. (PR: #847)
• method : Avoid Concurrent modification with CtType#addMethod. (PR: #850)
• position : Add default compilation unit when pretty-printing a new CtClass (closes #885). (Issue: #885) (PR: #886)
• travis : The logs of Travis are not polluted by Javadoc warnings. (PR: #866)

Documentation

• Add missing paper information. (PR: #889)
• Adds doc about architecture checking. (PR: #843)
• Update papers.md. (PR: #834)
• Update on release doc. (PR: #830)
• gradle : Improves Gradle doc (fixes #875). (Issue: #875) (PR: #876)
• support : Improves support documentation. (PR: #865)
• release : Update release number. (PR: #831)

Refactoring

• Allow Launcher to use an existing Factory (Closes #862). (Issue: #862) (PR: #863)
• Fix a test that fails on Eclipse due to its classloader. (PR: #859)
• Removes all useless conditions with CtReference. (Closes #824). (Issue: #824) (PR: #836)
• ast : Improves generic parameter type of setActualTypeReferences. (Closes #823). (Issue: #823) (PR: #835)
• release : Remove deprecated code. (PR: #833)

Other

• jenkins : Clean. (PR: #848)
• pom : Updates commons-io from 1.3.2 to 1.4. (Closes #845). (Issue: #845) (PR: #851)
• release
  • Scripts to publish automatically a release. (PR: #852)
  • Adds nodejs script to generate changelog. (PR: #832)
• travis : Avoid running several times the tests on Travis. (PR: #839)
• version : Update spoon maven plugin version. (PR: #849)
• website : Add a link checker (fixes #797). (Issue: #797) (PR: #872)

spoon-core-5.3.0

New feature

• ast
  • Adds CtTypeInformation#isGenerics method. (PR: #799)
  • Introduces new metamodel class CtTypeParameter for representing a generic type parameter. (Closes #606). (Issue: #606) (PR: #798)
• wildcard : Creates a new metamodel element for representing a generics wildcard. (Closes #605). (Issue: #605) (PR: #796)

Fixes

• access
  • Qualified field access with import static. (PR: #789)
  • Qualified fieldaccess in noclasspath mode. (PR: #762)
• Typecasts on conditionals are not scanned hence not cloned. (PR: #753)
• Avoid NullPointerException in CtExecutableReferenceImpl.getDeclaration. (closes #808). (Issue: #808) (PR: #809)
• Fix NPE in getUsedTypes (Closes #650). (Issue: #650) (PR: #800)
• Fix regressions introduced by #748. (Issue: #748) (PR: #789)
• GetAllMethods returns all methods, incl. those of library superclasses and java.lang.Object. (PR: #771)
• annotation : Supports enum fields with Annotation#annotate() method. (Closes #750). (Issue: #750) (PR: #767)
• actual : Rewrite actual types with their enclosing class. (PR: #789)
• api : CtModel.processWith(). (PR: #821)
• array
  • Builds dimensions with casts. (PR: #789)
  • Allows array in an array. (PR: #789)
• docs : Changes target of getSignature in javadoc. (PR: #742)
• enum : Handle synthetic methods of enums (fixes #793). (Issue: #793) (PR: #794)
• executable
  • Allows block in executable. (PR: #789)
  • Fix method ExecutableFactory#createReference to handle static methods (Closes #817). (Issue: #817) (PR: #818)
• factory : GetDeclaration from element created by factory should not return null. (closes #719). (Issue: #719) (PR: #735)
• fieldaccess : Static field access in anonymous executable (closes #816). (Issue: #816) (PR: #819)
• import : Skip findImport and createPackage if necessary. Fixes #759. (Issue: #759) (PR: #760)
• lambda : Resolve Literal#constant if required. Fixes #755. (Issue: #755) (PR: #758)
• method : Search method with generics. (Issue: #573) (PR: #799)
• noclasspath
  • Mark target as implicit if it's an anonymous class. (Closes #707). (Issue: #707) (PR: #737)
  • Correct reference to parameters in lambda methods. (Closes #779). (Issue: #779) (PR: #802)
  • Access lookup in lambda expressions in noclasspath mode. (Issue: #813) (PR: #814)
  • Tolerates missing annotation types. (PR: #820)
  • Avoid exception when we call getAllFields method. (PR: #780)
• package : Handle packages with only package-info.java. (Closes #748). (Issue: #748) (PR: #766)
• reference
  • Allow creation of a reference from CtAnonymousExecutable. (Closes #739). (Issue: #739) (PR: #740)
  • Dynamically lookup the declaration of all variable references (closes #756). (Issue: #756) (PR: #764)
  • No declaring type in an executable reference of a lambda. (fixes #733). (Issue: #733) (PR: #734)
• replace : Use generic replace with CtStatementList elements (closes #792). (Issue: #792) (PR: #795)
• type : Fix exception in noclasspath due to PolyTypeBinding. (Closes #751). (Issue: #751) (PR: #804)

Refactoring

• ref : Removes unused CtCircularTypeReference. (PR: #799)
• visitor : Rename EqualVisitor to DeepRepresentationVisitor. (Closes #791). (Issue: #791) (PR: #801)
• Refactors DefaultJavaPrettyPrinter and JDTTreeBuilder to simplify future maintenance. (PR: #784)
• Moves JDTTreeBuilder inner classes into top-level classes, adds one helper class with static methods. (PR: #746)
• Removes getSignature() and create getShortRepresentation(). (PR: #738)

Spoon 5.2.0

Metamodel

• Clean reset of collections in intercession methods. (PR: #712)
• All setters allow null parameters. (PR: #694)
• Introduces CtModel (Issue: #584) (PR: #589)
• Creates factory methods for primitives. (Issue: #651) (PR: #700)
• Remove CtImplicitTypeRef and CtImplicitArrayTypeRef. (PR: #667)

New features

• shadow : Build shadow elements using Reflection API. (PR: #569)
• checks : Disable AST checks. (Issue: #649) (PR: #684)
• comment
  • All comments are handled by the same option (-c). (Issue: #666) (PR: #676)
  • Adds comment support. (PR: #554)
• filter : Adds LineFilter to reason about statements in blocks. (PR: #678)
• clone : Adds the handy CtElement#clone (and deprecates CoreFactory#clone). (PR: #677)
• Refactoring of CtElement.equals for performance. (PR: #674)
• A faster implementation of 'replace' based on code generation. (PR: #632)

Fixes

• annot : Reference to an annotation field as an invocation. (Issue: #578) (PR: #660)
• ast : Align CtNewClass with CtConstructorCall. (PR: #595)
• cache : Invalidate cache of the compiler. (Issue: #575) (PR: #577)
• clone
  • Scan declaring executable of CtParameterRef (closes #729). (Issue: #729) (PR: #730)
  • Fix bug (modifiers not deep copied). (PR: #727)
• comment
  • Fix bug in the usage of the new flag (closes #721). (Issue: #721) (PR: #723)
  • Handles comments in CtNewArray and in CtConditional. (Issue: #588) (PR: #590)
• compiler : Add class generated to compilation unit. (PR: #564)
• conditional : Puts parenthesis when it is necessary. (PR: #669)
• factory : Gets inner type from Class/InterfaceFactory. (closes #640). (Issue: #640) (PR: #682)
• filter : Fixes NPE in VariableAccessFilter when the getVariable() is null (e.g. super). (PR: #641)
• getparent : GetParent(Filter) does not return the current element when it matches the filter. (PR: #638)
• lambda : Builds executable ref from a lambda. (PR: #665)
• noclasspath : NPE in a scope usage. (Issue: #574) (PR: #576)
• parent
  • Avoid NPE with CtElement#hasParent(CtElement) (Closes #679). (Issue: #679) (PR: #685)
  • HasParent should not always return false. (PR: #686)
• performance : Rewrite CtExecutableReference#isOverriding. (Issue: #586) (PR: #592)
• printer : Protects each getParent invocation in DefaultJavaPrettyPrinter. (PR: #704)
• ref : Scan declaring type for CtExecutableReference. (PR: #715)
• unbox : Don't throw a SCNFException with #unbox(). (PR: #620)
• Declaring type OR package should be set for a reference, not both. (PR: #613)
• Annotation values traversal should be delegated to scan(), fixes #603. (Issue: #603) (PR: #614)
• Fix bugs in ImportScannerImpl. (PR: #596)
• Fix a number of bugs related to handling of unnamed packages. (PR: #705)
• Fix bug introduced in #689 (order to iterate with a Deque and Stack are different). (Issue: #689) (PR: #710)
• Fix nullpointer in hasTypeInImports. (PR: #672)
• Use CtTypeParameterRef for formal ops. (PR: #620)
• Fix bugs in ClassFactory.create() methods. (PR: #610)
• Fix many small bugs with double usage of AST nodes in different subtrees,. (PR: #645)
• Doesn't warn for implicit source code. (PR: #696)
• Fix a bug in CodeFactory.createThisAccess() (target was not set). (PR: #612)
• Fix bugs with creating CtTypeAccess without cloning reference, that leads to problems with replace() in graph. (PR: #611)

spoon-core-5.1.1

Hotfix

• Updates remote repository to download JDT.

spoon-core-5.1.0

New features

• Full support of intersection types. #535
• Fluent api to test source code transformations. #517
• Add field at the top of a type. #537

Minor API changes

• Annotation values are handled as CtExpression. #555 #556
• CtVariableAccess#getType does not return null anymore, now delegates to getVariable().getType(). #548

Fixes

• No classpath:
  • NPE thrown with annotations on primitive type. #530
  • Anonymous class name must have an empty string. #530
  • NPE when build the type of a CtNewArray. #561
• Generics:
  • Generics in declaring types of a constructor call. #538
  • A local type can have actual generic types. #542
  • Generics in declaring types of a new class. #545
• Fields:
  • The qualified name of a type declared in an anonymous class. #541
• Visibility:
  • Field access declared in a default class. #543

Refactoring

• Refactored responsabilities of equal/hashcode/signature. #532

spoon-core-5.0.2

Fixes

• Local type shouldn't start its name with its identifier in a constructor.
• Uses CtFieldRead for class access in values of annotations.