Re: [SrcML] static analyzis

[Frank R. <fra...@in...>]

On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 09:22:16PM +0200, Leif Bladt wrote:
> The analyzer plugins can handle more than one SrcML document now. 
> Therefore I changed the execute method from:
>     public abstract Vector execute(SrcML f_srcml) throws 
> PluginException;
> to
>     public abstract Vector execute(Vector f_docs) throws 
> PluginException;

You can change that into 
public abstract Vector<AnalyzerResult> execute(
    Vector<SrcML> f_docs) throws PluginException
now that we 'support' java 1.5 to increase the type safety.
(same for the methods below)

> I also changed the Analyzer Platform, but I didn't adopted the way the 
> View Platform handles this. Instead I will use a Vector with SrcML 
> documents in it. To manage the Vector there are 4 methods:
>     public Vector addDocument(SrcML f_srcml) {}
>     public Vector getDocuments() {}
>     public void removeAllDocuments() {}
>     public Vector removeDocument(SrcML f_srcml) {}

So if I understand that correctly the AnalyzerPlatform still only
has a execute() method without parameters, but implicitly calls
the plugin with execute(getDocuments()) ?

> The advantage is, that you can add all your files you want to be 
> analyzed and then run numerous analyzes on it, with just set the new 
> plugin each time.
> 
> As always, tell me what you think about it!

Sounds good. Although you could do the same for the View too. The
Vector of SrcML documents has to be created 'somewhere'. In your
case the AnalyzerPlatform takes care of it and in the case of the
ViewPlatform the callee would have to use the same Vector for every
chosen ViewPlugin. But from a design point of view your solution
looks better to me as it's emphasizing the platform concept more
clearly.

-- 
Raiser, Frank
Student @ University of Ulm (www.uni-ulm.de)