Spoon Roadmap

Short-term, long term and crazy ideas about Spoon

version of 03/09/2015

Model
- support for analyzing bound vs unbound type references (List<T> vs List<String>)
Transformations:
- Keep original when printing after transformation
  - inline comments
  - indentation and formatting
- sniper mode (only rewrites the changed nodes)
- Transactional transformations (rollback if transfo fails)
- adds generic transformations: a generic transformation is a transformation that is independent of the domain and can be applied to any source code, their goal is to facilitate analysis and transformation
  - everything in a block
  - unfinalizer (remove as many "final" keywords as possible)
Processor orchestration
- specify the current strategy
  - what if multiple processors on the same node
  - what if new nodes added?
- improved version, see 'Source model analysis using the JJTraveler visitor combinator framework'
- dependency models between processors
Spoon in the IDE
- on the fly model update
- lazy spoon (build the class model only after a call to getDeclaration)
Child project spoon-refactorings (starting from TTC)
Templates
- templates as query language (see TemplateMatcher)
- inline templates
  - with anonymous classes
  - with lambda
Write spoon processors, compile them to ASM transformations on bytecode

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