Analyzer package - How to recursively search in the results of parseDartFile() - dart

Currently trying to understand 'analyzer' package, because I need to analyze and edit .dart file from another file (maybe it's a terrible idea).
I think I understand how to go deep into the childEntities tree.
But can't understand how to search in it.
I mean, theoretically I can write a recursive search that will find me a class named "FindABetterSolution". But is there a built in method for that?
What I'm trying to do:
var file = parseDartFile("test.dart");
file.childEntities.forEach((SyntacticEntity entity) {
if(entity is AstNode) {
//then it has its own child nodes which can be AstNode-s or Tokens.
} else if(entity is Token) {
Token token = entity;
print("${token.lexeme} ${token.type} ${token.runtimeType} ${token.keyword}");
//this will output "class KEYWORD KeywordToken CLASS" for "class" in "class MyClass {"
}
});
//I need a way to find certain functions/classes/variables/methods e.t.c.
var myClassNode = file.searchClass("MyClass", abstract: false);
var myMethod = myClassNode.searchMethod("myMethod", static: true);
var globalFunction = file.searchFunction("myFunc", returns: "bool");
UPD: Ok, I think I found a way to search and replace nodes. But how to insert new node after/before another?

You can call file.accept() or file.visitChildren() with a RecursiveAstVisitor that implements visitClassDeclaration, visitMethodDeclaration, or visitFunctionDeclaration.

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Context dependent ANTLR4 ParseTreeVisitor implementation

I am working on a project where we migrate massive number (more than 12000) views to Hadoop/Impala from Oracle. I have written a small Java utility to extract view DDL from Oracle and would like to use ANTLR4 to traverse the AST and generate an Impala-compatible view DDL statement.
The most of the work is relatively simple, only involves re-writing some Oracle specific syntax quirks to Impala style. However, I am facing an issue, where I am not sure I have the best answer yet: we have a number of special cases, where values from a date field are extracted in multiple nested function calls. For example, the following extracts the day from a Date field:
TO_NUMBER(TO_CHAR(d.R_DATE , 'DD' ))
I have an ANTLR4 grammar declared for Oracle SQL and hence get the visitor callback when it reaches TO_NUMBER and TO_CHAR as well, but I would like to have special handling for this special case.
Is not there any other way than implementing the handler method for the outer function and then resorting to manual traversal of the nested structure to see
I have something like in the generated Visitor class:
#Override
public String visitNumber_function(PlSqlParser.Number_functionContext ctx) {
// FIXME: seems to be dodgy code, can it be improved?
String functionName = ctx.name.getText();
if (functionName.equalsIgnoreCase("TO_NUMBER")) {
final int childCount = ctx.getChildCount();
if (childCount == 4) {
final int functionNameIndex = 0;
final int openRoundBracketIndex = 1;
final int encapsulatedValueIndex = 2;
final int closeRoundBracketIndex = 3;
ParseTree encapsulated = ctx.getChild(encapsulatedValueIndex);
if (encapsulated instanceof TerminalNode) {
throw new IllegalStateException("TerminalNode is found at: " + encapsulatedValueIndex);
}
String customDateConversionOrNullOnOtherType =
customDateConversionFromToNumberAndNestedToChar(encapsulated);
if (customDateConversionOrNullOnOtherType != null) {
// the child node contained our expected child element, so return the converted value
return customDateConversionOrNullOnOtherType;
}
// otherwise the child was something unexpected, signalled by null
// so simply fall-back to the default handler
}
}
// some other numeric function, default handling
return super.visitNumber_function(ctx);
}
private String customDateConversionFromToNumberAndNestedToChar(ParseTree parseTree) {
// ...
}
For anyone hitting the same issue, the way to go seems to be:
changing the grammar definition and introducing custom sub-types for
the encapsulated expression of the nested function.
Then, I it is possible to hook into the processing at precisely the desired location of the Parse tree.
Using a second custom ParseTreeVisitor that captures the values of function call and delegates back the processing of the rest of the sub-tree to the main, "outer" ParseTreeVisitor.
Once the second custom ParseTreeVisitor has finished visiting all the sub-ParseTrees I had the context information I required and all the sub-tree visited properly.

FLUTTER How to get variable based on passed string name?

I have stored variables in a class with their code names.
Suppose I want to get XVG from that class, I want to do
String getIconsURL(String symbol) {
var list = new URLsList();
//symbol = 'XVG'
return list.(symbol);
}
class URLsList{
var XVG = 'some url';
var BTC = 'some url';
}
Can someone help me achieve this or provide me with a better solution?
Dart when used in flutter doesn't support reflection.
If it's text that you want to have directly in your code for some reason, I'd advise using a text replace (using your favourite tool or using intellij's find + replace with regex) to change it into a map, i.e.
final Map<String, String> whee = {
'XVG': 'url 1',
'BTC': 'url 2',
};
Another alternative is saving it as a JSON file in your assets, and then loading it and reading it when the app opens, or even downloading it from a server on first run / when needed (in case the URLs need updating more often than you plan on updating the app). Hardcoding a bunch of data like that isn't necessarily always a good idea.
EDIT: how to use.
final Map<String, String> whee = .....
String getIconsURL(String symbol) {
//symbol = 'XVG'
return whee[symbol];
}
If you define it in a class make sure you set it to static as well so it doesn't make another each time the class is instantiated.
Also, if you want to iterate through them you have the option of using entries, keys, or values - see the Map Class documentation
I'd just implement a getProperty(String name) method or the [] operator like:
class URLsList{
var XVG = 'some url';
var BTC = 'some url';
String get operator [](String key) {
switch(key) {
case 'XVG': return XVG;
case 'BTC': return BTC;
}
}
}
String getIconsURL(String symbol) {
var list = new URLsList();
return list[symbol];
}
You can also use reflectable package that enables you to use reflection-like code by code generation.
Assuming that the class is being created from a JSON Object, you can always use objectName.toJSON() and then use the variable names are array indices to do your computations.

Dart JSON Decoder

I am surprised that dart does not have a built in object-to-json and json-to-object mapper.
I read that we have to hand code the mapping ourselves, which is not pleasant.
Anyways, although I have not thoroughly tested it for my use case, I found dart-exportable to be very helpful for half of my requirement.
Any suggested package for json to object decoding?
Your best option is to use the Smoke library.
It's a subset of the Mirrors functionality but has both a Mirrors-based and a Codegen-based implementation. It's written by the PolymerDart team, so it's as close to "Official" as we're going to get.
While developing, it'll use the Mirrors-based encoding/decoding; but for publishing you can create a small transformer that will generate code.
Seth Ladd created a code sample here, which I extended slightly to support child-objects:
abstract class Serializable {
static fromJson(Type t, Map json) {
var typeMirror = reflectType(t);
T obj = typeMirror.newInstance(new Symbol(""), const[]).reflectee;
json.forEach((k, v) {
if (v is Map) {
var d = smoke.getDeclaration(t, smoke.nameToSymbol(k));
smoke.write(obj, smoke.nameToSymbol(k), Serializable.fromJson(d.type, v));
} else {
smoke.write(obj, smoke.nameToSymbol(k), v);
}
});
return obj;
}
Map toJson() {
var options = new smoke.QueryOptions(includeProperties: false);
var res = smoke.query(runtimeType, options);
var map = {};
res.forEach((r) => map[smoke.symbolToName(r.name)] = smoke.read(this, r.name));
return map;
}
}
Currently, there is no support to get generic type information (eg. to support List) in Smoke; however I've raised a case about this here:
https://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=20584
Until this issue is implemented, a "good" implementation of what you want is not really feasible; but I'm hopeful it'll be implemented soon; because doing something as basic as JSON serialisation kinda hinges on it!
I haven't had the time to complete it yet but dartson is currently working using mirrors. However a better solution would be using a transformer when compiling to JavaScript. https://pub.dartlang.org/packages/dartson

Does the Dart programming language have an equivalent to Javascript's "prototype"?

In Dart, is it possible for a function to have a prototype associated with it?
Example Javascript code:
doStuff.prototype.isDefined = true; //is there anything like Javascript's function prototypes in Dart?
function doStuff(){
console.log("The function doStuff was called!");
}
Is it possible to do the equivalent of this in Dart (i.e., create a list of properties for each function?)
Two things to address here:
First, Dart doesn't have prototypes or prototypal inheritance, and instead uses classical inheritance. Rather than a prototype, objects have a class, and instead of a prototype chain, objects have superclasses.
Second, for your specific case, I think we'd have to see more of what you need to do to figure out the idiomatic way to do it in Dart. It should soon be possible to emulate functions with objects so that you can invoke an object and still have state and other methods associated with it.
See this article for more: http://www.dartlang.org/articles/emulating-functions/
When that capability lands you'll be able to do this:
class DoStuff {
bool isDefined = true;
call() => print("The function doStuff was called!");
}
var doStuff = new DoStuff();
main() => doStuff();
Which works if you have a fixed set of metadata about your function that you need to keep track of. It's slightly different from JavaScript because each instance of the function in Dart will have its own state for isDefined. I'm not sure if it's possible or easy to get multiple instances of the function in JavasScript, but you might need to make isDefined static so that the value is shared across all instances.
Dart does not allow you to add or remove member variables from an instance of a class at runtime. Rewriting your example in Dart it might look something like this:
class doStuff {
bool isDefined;
doStuff() {
isDefined = true;
}
void stuff() {
print('The function stuff was called!');
}
}
main() {
new doStuff().stuff();
}
If you wanted to add a property bag to a class in Dart you would write:
class PropertyObject {
Map<String, Dynamic> properties;
PropertyObject() {
properties = new Map<String, Dynamic>();
}
Dynamic operator[](String K) => properties[K];
void operator[]=(String K, Dynamic V) => properties[K] = V;
}
main() {
PropertyObject bag = new PropertyObject();
bag['foo'] = 'world';
print('Hello ${bag['foo']}');
}
Note that you can't access map properties using the '.' operator.

Is there a way to dynamically call a method or set an instance variable in a class in Dart?

I would want to be able to do something like this with a Dart class constructor:
class Model {
// ... setting instance variables
Model(Map fields) {
fields.forEach((k,v) => this[k] = v);
}
}
Obviously, this doesn't work, because this doesn't have a []= method.
Is there a way to make it work or is it simply not "the dart way" of doing things? If it's not, could you show me what would be the right way to tackle this?
You can use Mirrors:
InstanceMirror im = reflect(theClassInstance);
im.invoke('methodName', ['param 1', 2, 'foo']).then((InstanceMirror value) {
print(value.reflectee); // This is the return value of the method invocation.
});
So, in your case you could do this (since you have setters):
import 'dart:mirrors';
class Model {
Model(Map fields) {
InstanceMirror im = reflect(this);
fields.forEach((k, v) => im.setField(k, v)); // or just fields.forEach(im.setField);
}
}
The documentation for InstanceMirror might come in handy.
Currently no. You will have to wait for reflection to arrive in Dart before something like this (hopefully) becomes possible. Until then your best bet is probably to do it in a constructor. Alternatively you could try to use something like JsonObject which allows you to directly initialize it from a Map (for an explanation on how this works, check this blog post).

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