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java-parser
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The java-parser npm package is a tool for parsing Java source code into an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST). This allows developers to analyze, transform, and manipulate Java code programmatically.
Parsing Java Code
This feature allows you to parse Java source code into an AST. The code sample demonstrates how to parse a simple Java class and print the resulting AST.
const javaParser = require('java-parser');
const javaCode = 'public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello, World!"); } }';
const ast = javaParser.parse(javaCode);
console.log(JSON.stringify(ast, null, 2));
AST Traversal
This feature allows you to traverse the AST generated from Java source code. The code sample demonstrates a simple traversal that prints the type of each node in the AST.
const javaParser = require('java-parser');
const javaCode = 'public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello, World!"); } }';
const ast = javaParser.parse(javaCode);
function traverse(node) {
console.log(node.type);
if (node.children) {
node.children.forEach(traverse);
}
}
traverse(ast);
Code Transformation
This feature allows you to transform the Java code by manipulating the AST. The code sample demonstrates how to rename a class in the parsed AST.
const javaParser = require('java-parser');
const javaCode = 'public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello, World!"); } }';
const ast = javaParser.parse(javaCode);
// Example transformation: rename the class
ast.children[0].name = 'HelloUniverse';
console.log(JSON.stringify(ast, null, 2));
Esprima is a high-performance, standard-compliant ECMAScript parser. It parses JavaScript code into an AST, similar to how java-parser works for Java. Esprima is widely used for JavaScript code analysis and transformation.
ANTLR (Another Tool for Language Recognition) is a powerful parser generator for reading, processing, executing, or translating structured text or binary files. ANTLR can be used to parse Java and many other languages, making it more versatile than java-parser, which is specific to Java.
~$ npm i -g java-parser
~$ echo '
class HelloWorld {
final int UNIVERSE = 42;
}
' > HelloWorld.java
~$ java-parser HelloWorld.java
{
"node": "CompilationUnit",
"types": [
{
"node": "TypeDeclaration",
"name": {
"identifier": "HelloWorld",
"node": "SimpleName"
},
"superInterfaceTypes": [],
"superclassType": null,
"bodyDeclarations": [
{
"node": "FieldDeclaration",
"fragments": [
{
"node": "VariableDeclarationFragment",
"name": {
"identifier": "UNIVERSE",
"node": "SimpleName"
},
"extraDimensions": 0,
"initializer": {
"node": "NumberLiteral",
"token": "42"
}
}
],
"type": {
"node": "PrimitiveType",
"primitiveTypeCode": "int"
},
"modifiers": [
{
"node": "Modifier",
"keyword": "final"
}
]
}
],
"typeParameters": [],
"interface": false,
"modifiers": []
}
],
"package": null,
"imports": []
}
~$ npm i java-parser
~$ echo '
var japa = require("java-parser");
console.log(japa.parse("package hello;"));
' | node
{ node: 'CompilationUnit',
types: [],
package:
{ node: 'PackageDeclaration',
name: { identifier: 'hello', node: 'SimpleName' },
annotations: [] },
imports: [] }
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The npm package java-parser receives a total of 240,353 weekly downloads. As such, java-parser popularity was classified as popular.
We found that java-parser demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 5 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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