org.eclipse.jdt.debug.eval
Interface IAstEvaluationEngine

All Superinterfaces:

IEvaluationEngine

public interface IAstEvaluationEngine

extends IEvaluationEngine

An evaluation engine that performs evaluations by interpretting abstract syntax trees. An AST evalutaion engine is capable of creating compiled expressions that can be evaluated multiple times in a given runtime context.

Clients are not intended to implement this interface.

Since:

2.0

Method Summary

void	evaluateExpression(ICompiledExpression expression, IJavaObject object, IJavaThread thread, IEvaluationListener listener, int evaluationDetail, boolean hitBreakpoints) Asynchronously evaluates the given expression in the context of the specified type, reporting the result back to the given listener.
void	evaluateExpression(ICompiledExpression expression, IJavaStackFrame frame, IEvaluationListener listener, int evaluationDetail, boolean hitBreakpoints) Asynchronously evaluates the given expression in the context of the specified stack frame, reporting the result back to the given listener.
ICompiledExpression	getCompiledExpression(String expression, IJavaObject object) Synchronously generates a compiled expression from the given expression in the context of the specified object.
ICompiledExpression	getCompiledExpression(String expression, IJavaStackFrame frame) Synchronously generates a compiled expression from the given expression in the context of the specified stack frame.

Methods inherited from interface org.eclipse.jdt.debug.eval.IEvaluationEngine

dispose, evaluate, evaluate, getDebugTarget, getJavaProject

Method Detail

evaluateExpression

public void evaluateExpression(ICompiledExpression expression,
                               IJavaStackFrame frame,
                               IEvaluationListener listener,
                               int evaluationDetail,
                               boolean hitBreakpoints)
                        throws DebugException

Asynchronously evaluates the given expression in the context of the specified stack frame, reporting the result back to the given listener. The thread is resumed from the location at which it is currently suspended to perform the evaluation. When the evaluation completes, the thread will be suspened at this original location. The thread runs the evaluation with the given evaluation detail (@see IJavaThread#runEvaluation(IEvaluationRunnable, IProgressMonitor, int)). Compilation and runtime errors are reported in the evaluation result.

Parameters:

expression - expression to evaluate

frame - the stack frame context in which to run the evaluation.

listener - the listener that will receive notification when/if the evalaution completes

evaluationDetail - one of DebugEvent.EVALUATION or DebugEvent.EVALUATION_IMPLICIT

hitBreakpoints - whether or not breakpoints should be honored in the evaluation thread during the evaluation. If false, breakpoints hit in the evaluation thread will be ignored.

Throws:

DebugException - if this method fails. Reasons include:

• Failure communicating with the VM. The DebugException's status code contains the underlying exception responsible for the failure.
• The associated thread is not currently suspended
• The stack frame is not contained in the debug target associated with this evaluation engine
• The associated thread is suspended in the middle of an evaluation that has not completed. It is not possible to perform nested evaluations

evaluateExpression

public void evaluateExpression(ICompiledExpression expression,
                               IJavaObject object,
                               IJavaThread thread,
                               IEvaluationListener listener,
                               int evaluationDetail,
                               boolean hitBreakpoints)
                        throws DebugException

Asynchronously evaluates the given expression in the context of the specified type, reporting the result back to the given listener. The expression is evaluated in the context of the Java project this evaluation engine was created on. If the expression is determined to have no errors, the expression is evaluated in the thread associated with the given stack frame. When the evaluation completes, the thread will be suspened at this original location. The thread runs the evaluation with the given evaluation detail (@see IJavaThread#runEvaluation(IEvaluationRunnable, IProgressMonitor, int)). Compilation and runtime errors are reported in the evaluation result.

Parameters:

expression - the expression to evaluate

thread - the thread in which to run the evaluation, which must be suspended

listener - the listener that will receive notification when/if the evalaution completes

evaluationDetail - one of DebugEvent.EVALUATION or DebugEvent.EVALUATION_IMPLICIT

hitBreakpoints - whether or not breakpoints should be honored in the evaluation thread during the evaluation. If false, breakpoints hit in the evaluation thread will be ignored.

Throws:

DebugException - if this method fails. Reasons include:

• Failure communicating with the VM. The DebugException's status code contains the underlying exception responsible for the failure.
• The associated thread is not currently suspended
• The stack frame is not contained in the debug target associated with this evaluation engine
• The associated thread is suspended in the middle of an evaluation that has not completed. It is not possible to perform nested evaluations

getCompiledExpression

public ICompiledExpression getCompiledExpression(String expression,
                                                 IJavaStackFrame frame)
                                          throws DebugException

Synchronously generates a compiled expression from the given expression in the context of the specified stack frame. The generated expression can be stored and evaluated later in a valid runtime context. Compilation errors are reported in the returned compiled expression.

Parameters:

expression - expression to compile

frame - the context in which to compile the expression

Throws:

DebugException - if this method fails. Reasons include:

• Failure communicating with the VM. The DebugException's status code contains the underlying exception responsible for the failure.
• The associated thread is not currently suspended
• The stack frame is not contained in the debug target associated with this evaluation engine

getCompiledExpression

public ICompiledExpression getCompiledExpression(String expression,
                                                 IJavaObject object)
                                          throws DebugException

Synchronously generates a compiled expression from the given expression in the context of the specified object. The generated expression can be stored and evaluated later in a valid runtime context. Compilation errors are reported in the returned compiled expression.

Parameters:

expression - expression to compile

object - the context in which to compile the expression

Throws:

DebugException - if this method fails. Reasons include:

• Failure communicating with the VM. The DebugException's status code contains the underlying exception responsible for the failure.
• The associated thread is not currently suspended
• The stack frame is not contained in the debug target associated with this evaluation engine