[Uml-devel] PHP parsing

[Luis De la Parra Blum]

On Wednesday 26 February 2003 00:41, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote:
> Hi guys, is anyone working in PHP class parsing? I am looking for this

not yet.

> feature, and I have been thinking about adding it myself using some code
> from gideon, any advice, guide or comments? Please cc: me since I am not

acutally the C++ parser in Umbrello comes from an old version of KDevelop, but 
it's pretty much hard-coded into Umbrello (ie, it's not flexible like the 
code generators). Now that KDevelop (Gideon) is getting support for more 
languages, we hope we can use their parsers in Umbrello, but there has been 
no work in that area yet.
I think Jonathan was checking that out (at least for the C++ parser) but I 
dont think he's started getting the code into Umbrello.

> Great job! I really like Umbrello

good to hear.

luis

btw. I think the parser (at least the C++ one) in Gideon outputs some kind of 
AST (abstract syntax tree)... I dont know how difficult it would be, but it 
be nice if *all* parsers in Umbrello would output XMI code instead...
Then it'd be easier to implement some kind of "diff", and get the round-trip. 
(after generating a class and modifying it you can reimport it and would get 
the changes into the model)
Also, I would think the parser discards all coments (which is what's expected 
of a compiler-like parser) but ther's been requests in the list for the 
coments to be imported as Class documentation, and maybe the methods 
implementations as Methods associated with the operations in classes.