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====== PADL Generator ====== | ====== PADL Generator ====== | ||
- | Because all PADL creators are builders (as in the Builder design pattern) and must conform to the same interface ''padl.kernel.ICodeLevelModelCreator'' provided by [[PADL]], it is simple to provide a unified entry point for all of them. Also, the creation of interesting models often require the additional steps of: | + | In general, a code-level model can be obtain for a system through reverse-engineering/parsing using: |
+ | |||
+ | <code> | ||
+ | final ICodeLevelModel codeLevelModel = | ||
+ | Factory.getInstance().createCodeLevelModel(<Name>); | ||
+ | codeLevelModel.create( | ||
+ | new <A>Creator( | ||
+ | <FileRepository>.getInstance(), | ||
+ | new String[] { <Some files> }), <Recurse in directories>); | ||
+ | </code> | ||
+ | |||
+ | where: | ||
+ | * <Name> can be any String; | ||
+ | * <A>Creator is any class implementing the ICodeLevelModelCreator interface. A creator is the concrete parser or reverse-engineering algorithm that builds a PADL model from some files; | ||
+ | * <FileRepository> is any class implementing the IFileRepository interface. A file repository allows the meta-model and the creator to access necessary PADL resources (constituents, analyses, etc.) in a platform-independent way; | ||
+ | * <Some files> are any String pointing towards the files/directories to be parsed, as required by the creator; | ||
+ | * <Recurse in directories> is a Boolean flag that allow you to specify only the top most directory of a set of source files. | ||
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+ | Because all PADL creators are builders (as in the Builder design pattern) and conform to the same interface ''padl.kernel.ICodeLevelModelCreator'' provided by [[PADL]], it is simple to provide a unified entry point for all of them. Also, the creation of interesting models often require the additional steps of: | ||
- Annotating the models with information about lines of code; | - Annotating the models with information about lines of code; | ||
- Annotating the models with information about conditional statements; | - Annotating the models with information about conditional statements; |