Release: Spoon-5.7.0 incoming!

[surli]

Hi everyone,

we plan to release a new version of Spoon this week, probably wednesday (31/05) or thursday (01/06).
It will contain a bunch of bug fixes and new features :-)

Thanks all for your bug reports and PRs, and welcome to the newcomers in Spoon.
More information about the changelog on this thread soon.

[surli]

Here's the changelog for this new release, once again @pvojtechovsky did an amazing job on this release!
Thanks all contributors for helping us to improve Spoon!

New features

• Add support for Java 8 receiver parameters. (PR: review:add support for receiver parameter #1298)
• Function to find all executables with the same signature. (PR: review: feature: all executables same signature function #1291)
• Add new filter for finding lamdas (class LambdaFilter). (PR: review: feature LambdaFilter #1315)
• Add new function to collect subtypes (class SubInheritanceHierarchyFunction). (PR: review: feature sub inheritance hierarchy function #1290)
• Add refactoring class CtParameterRemoveRefactoring. (PR: review: feature Parameter remove refactoring #1317)
• Add SubInheritanceHierarchyResolver as helper for query mechanisms. (PR: Baby PR: SubInheritanceHierarchyResolver #1309)
• New filter ExecutableReferenceFilter. (PR: review: feature ExecutableReferenceFilter #1318)
• Add public method MethodTypingContext#adaptMethod. (PR: review: feature: MethodTypingContext#adaptMethod #1288)
• Add method GenericTypeAdapter#getAdaptationScope. (PR: review: feature: GenericTypeAdapter#getScope #1287)
• Add CtMethod#isOverriding(CtMethod). (PR: review1: feature: CtMethod#isOverriding(CtMethod) #1220)
• Add support for typing analysis of generic types. (PR: review1: feature: CtTypeParameter#isSubtypeOf #1218)
• Add support for type erasure (CtType/CtTypeReference#getTypeErasure()). (PR: review1: feature: CtTypeParameter#getTypeErasure() #1216)
• Support for better analysis of generic type arguments (TypeReference#getTypeParameterReference() and TypeFactory#createReference(type,includingFormalTypeParams)). (PR: Depends on #1238. feature: TypeFactory#createReference(type,includingFormalTypeParams) #1237)
• SuperInheritanceHierarchyFunction supports references and listener. (PR: review1: feature SuperInheritanceHierarchyFunction supports references and listener #1242)
• Add support for renaming local variables. (PR: review 1: Change local variable name refactoring #1005)
• comment: Add an AST node for the javadoc tags. (PR: Review: feat(comment): add an AST node for the javadoc tags #1310)
• template: The template engine supports substitution of method names in method calls. (PR: fix Template substitution of CtExecutableReference#simpleName #1325)

Bug Fixes

• Fix bug in CtExecutableReference#getActualMethod when parameters are generically typed. (PR: fix failing CtExecutableReference#getActualMethod #1277)
• Fix bug in getActualMethod() due to missing information in CtTypeParameterReference. (PR: reproduce CtMethod.getReference().getActualMethod() failure #1286)
• Improve line preservation mode. (PR: fix: improve line preservation mode #1335)
• Auto-import works for compilation units with multiple classes in the same file. (PR: fix: auto-import works for compilation units with multiple classes #1322)
• Fix import bug with java.lang.subpackage. (PR: Fix bug with import java.lang.subpackage #1327)
• Fix NPE in isTypeInCollision. (PR: fix:NPE in isTypeInCollision #1326)
• Improve ImportScanner to support variables called "java". (PR: fix(#1320): Improve ImportScanner mechanism to support collision with java.lang  #1321)
• Fix bug in qualified names in a special case due to missing information in JDT. Fix The fully qualified name of an annotation on a method inside an anonymous inner class is sometimes not completely correct #1307. (PR: review bug: some Override annotations are retrieved without information by JDT  #1312)
• Fix bug in import inference (auto-import mode). Close Exception at compilation due to a constructor with private visibility #1306. (PR: review:Bug with auto import #1306 #1308)
• In noClasspath, a type without import should be considered in the same package as the current class. (PR: review bug: in noClasspath type without import should be considered in the same package as current class #1302)
• Fix SuperInheritanceHierarchyFunction in noClassPath mode. (PR: Fix SuperInheritanceHierarchyFunction in noClassPath mode #1281)
• Fix AnnotationFactory#create. (PR: fix AnnotationFactory#create #1340)
• Fix JDT error when input resource contains an entirely commented class. (PR: Create a new unit test for #1274 and propose a fix #1279)
• Fix special case not handled in factory.Annotation().annotate(). (PR: Create a unit test for #1264 and fix it #1278)
• Fix a couple of bugs in recent feature "generic type adaptation". (PR: review1: fix generic type adapting #1275)
• Fix regression regarding actual type arguments resolving. (PR: fix actual type arguments resolving #1273)
• #setParent is not a normal metamodel setter, and is excluded from SpoonTestHelpers#getAllSetters. (PR: fix SpoonTestHelpers#getAllSetters not returning #setParent #1261)
• TestFactorySubFactory must only check public factory methods. (PR: fix testFactorySubFactory checks only public methods #1263)
• CtBlock#getLastStatement is a @DerivedProperty. (PR: fix CtBlock#getLastStatement is DerivedProperty #1262)
• Fix a bug in wrongly qualified type in executable references. (PR: review: Fix a bug related to method signature of invocation when noclasspath and generics #1259)
• Fix issue Compilation bug, spoon silently doesn't compile any source code in environment where new File(".") points to the folder without any java sources (for example in tomcat environment where it points to the bin folder) #1246. (PR: review: consider the sources when calling compile in JDTBasedSpoonCompiler #1251)
• Fix NPE in CtElement#getMetadataKeys. Closes CtElementImpl.getMetadataKeys() throws NPE #1239. (PR: review: fix NPE with CtElement#getMetadataKeys (fix #1239) #1240)

Documentation

• Add pointer to new Template example. (PR: doc: add pointer to new Template example #1343)
• Document and refactor TemplateMatcher. (PR: review: fix, improve and document TemplateMatcher #1319)
• Update examples links from gforge.inria.fr to github.com. (PR: review: Update examples links #1226)
• Adds InspectorGuidget in ecosystem page. (PR: doc: adds InspectorGuidget in ecosystem page  #1304)
• Clarifies page on architectural rule checking with Spoon. (PR: doc: clarifies page on architectural rule checking with Spoon #1301)
• Fix link mix. (PR: doc: fix link mix #1297)
• Fix javadoc of SuperInheritanceHierarchyFunction. (PR: fix java doc of SuperInheritanceHierarchyFunction #1289)
• Update doc with release 5.6.0 information. (PR: Change documentation to update release information #1227)

Refactoring

• Remove or update deprecation related to queries & filters. (PR: refactor: remove or update deprecation related to queries & filters #1300)
• Improve ImportScanner design, add getAllImports. (PR: refactor: change ImportScanner interface to add getAllImports #1339)
• Renamed confusing duplicate classes. (PR: refactor: renamed confusing duplicate classes #1333)
• Improve PrinterHelper (less duplication, more encapsulation). (PR: refactor: improve PrinterHelper (less duplication, more encapsulation) #1332)
• Handle some rare limit cases. (PR: refactor: handle some rare limit cases to avoid nasty NPEs #1331)
• Remove call to deprecated File#toURL. (PR: refactor: remove call to deprecated File#toURL #1313)
• Change generic type bound. (PR: review: fix: replace wrong CtTypeInformation by CtType #1314)
• Replace string literals by constants. (PR: review: replace string literals by constants #1316)
• Remove deprecated method computeImports. (PR: refactor: Remove deprecated computeImports #1234 #1311)
• Remove useless 'final' modifier in interface methods. (PR: remove redundant 'final' modifier #1334)
• MethodTypingContext#isOverriding/isSameSignature/isSubSignature moved to ClassTypingContext. (PR: review: refactor MethodTypingContext#isOverriding moved to ClassTypingContext #1299)
• MethodTypingContext#adaptMethod moved to ClassTypingContext. (PR: review: refactor MethodTypingContext#adaptMethod moved to ClassTypingContext #1296)
• AllTypeMembersFunction accepts now CtTypeInformation as parameter. (PR: review: refactor AllTypeMembersFunction #1285)
• Use new CtMethod#isOverriding in method overriding/overriden filters. (PR: review1: refactor Method overriding/overriden filters #1276)
• Refactor and test initProperties. (PR: refactor: refactor and test initProperties #1260)
• Remove unused field. (PR: remove unused field CtMethodImpl#formalTypeParameters  #1253)
• Adds an architural rule for helper classes with static methods. (PR: refactor: adds an architural rule for helper classes with static methods #1247)
• CtFormalTypeDeclarer extends CtTypeMember. (PR: refactor: CtFormalTypeDeclarer extends CtTypeMember #1235)
• Refactor *VariableReferenceFunction around LocalVariableReferenceFunction. (PR: review 1: feature: search for CtVariableReference in defined scope #1193)

Performance

• Use factory.Type().OBJECT to save memory. (PR: use factory.Type().OBJECT #1241)
• Use TypeFactory#OBJECT. (PR: fix: use TypeFactory#OBJECT #1231)

Tests

• Improve TemplateMatcher test. (PR: bug in test testTemplateMatcher #1323)

Other

• Checkstyle checks that the end of lines are consistent (unix-style \n only). (PR: Checkstyle now checks the end of lines to ensure unix-style eol is used #1344)
• Fix broken revapi reports due to regression in revapi-reporter-text 0.8.0.
• Revapi check should fail only for breaking changes. (PR: chore: revapi check should fail only for breaking changes #1282)
• Fix revapi bug. (PR: chore: fix revapi bug #1280)

Unknown

• Add 'getBinaryFiles' to CompilationUnit. Fixes CompilationUnit: Get path of .class file from CompilationUnit #1230. (PR: Add 'getBinaryFiles' to CompilationUnit. Fixes #1230. #1232)
• Prepare for next development iteration.

Authors

Name	Nb Commit
Pavel Vojtechovsky	38
Simon Urli	18
Martin Monperrus	17
Thomas Durieux	1
Marcel Steinbeck	1

[monperrus]

Waoooow!!

[msteinbeck]

Thank you for this excellent release.