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Semantic Patches for Java Program Transformation (Experience Report)

Authors Hong Jin Kang, Ferdian Thung, Julia Lawall, Gilles Muller, Lingxiao Jiang, David Lo

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Hong Jin Kang
  • School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Ferdian Thung
  • School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Julia Lawall
  • Sorbonne Université/Inria/LIP6, France
Gilles Muller
  • Sorbonne Université/Inria/LIP6, France
Lingxiao Jiang
  • School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore
David Lo
  • School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore

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This research was supported by the Singapore National Research Foundation (award number: NRF2016-NRF-ANR003) and the ANR ITrans project.

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Hong Jin Kang, Ferdian Thung, Julia Lawall, Gilles Muller, Lingxiao Jiang, and David Lo. Semantic Patches for Java Program Transformation (Experience Report). In 33rd European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2019). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 134, pp. 22:1-22:27, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2019.22

Abstract

Developing software often requires code changes that are widespread and applied to multiple locations. There are tools for Java that allow developers to specify patterns for program matching and source-to-source transformation. However, to our knowledge, none allows for transforming code based on its control-flow context. We prototype Coccinelle4J, an extension to Coccinelle, which is a program transformation tool designed for widespread changes in C code, in order to work on Java source code. We adapt Coccinelle to be able to apply scripts written in the Semantic Patch Language (SmPL), a language provided by Coccinelle, to Java source files. As a case study, we demonstrate the utility of Coccinelle4J with the task of API migration. We show 6 semantic patches to migrate from deprecated Android API methods on several open source Android projects. We describe how SmPL can be used to express several API migrations and justify several of our design decisions.

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  • Software and its engineering → Software notations and tools
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  • Program transformation
  • Java

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