For extracting source code, you might be able to modify this AST
transformation for your specific use case: SourceCodeASTTransformation
<https://github.com/shils/groovy-exp/blob/master/src/main/groovy/me/shils/internal/transform/SourceCodeASTTransformation.groovy>
(example
usage in the tests
<https://github.com/shils/groovy-exp/blob/master/src/test/groovy/me/shils/internal/transform/SourceCodeASTTransformationTest.groovy>).
I haven't touched this code since Groovy 2.4.x, so I can't guarantee it
works as intended in more recent versions.
On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 8:55 AM Alessio Stalla <alessiosta...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I don't know about Groovy specifically, but most parsers discard comments
> (and whitespace, line endings, etc.) before building an AST. However, you
> can reconstruct the missing text if you have the position information of
> each AST node and the original source code available.
>
> On Wed, 29 Sept 2021 at 08:26, Saravanan Palanichamy <chava...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am trying to do two things
>>
>> 1) Extract comments from inside a function code (not the function's
>> groovy doc, but comments embedded inside the function code itself)
>> 2) Extract the source code of the function itself
>>
>> For example
>>
>> /* Comments about myFunction *./
>> void myFunction() {
>> // My first line in the function
>> myFirstLine()
>>
>> // My second line
>> secondLine()
>> }
>>
>> I want to extract the two // comments inside the function. I also want to
>> be able to get the entire source code of the function (so essentially the
>> entire code snippet above) as part of my AST transformations. Is that
>> possible? Thank you for your time
>>
>> regards
>> Saravanan
>>
>
