Re: Interface parser

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 26 Jul 2004, at 15:56, stefan@agentfarms.net wrote:

> Hello,
>
> There are projects parsing Objective-C header files, such as autodoc, 
> gorm or
> perhaps others not known. I would like to ask, if there is one that 
> can I use
> to query list of instance variables from header files? It does not 
> have to be
> idiot-proof, it just have to accept decent source code.
>
> I want to get list of variables + their types. Best thing would be to 
> be able to
> get additional information, perhaps present in comments after each 
> variable.
>
> Can be existing conde extracted from those projects and reused as 
> stand-alone
> parser class? Does anyone have exact pointers to where I should look?

The AGSParser class from autogsdoc (base/Tools) probably does what you 
want
(as well as a lot of other stuff you most likely don't want), 
extracting information into
a property-list.  You can call -parseFile:isSource: to do this, then 
examine the
property list returned.