Re: Interface parser

[Stefan Urbanek]

On 2004-07-26 17:02:33 +0200 Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@brainstorm.co.uk> 
wrote:

> 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.

Thank you! I'll try to do something with it. Perhaps I'll try to implement 
light-weighted Objective-C parser framework.

Stefan Urbanek
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