Re: Code analysis: Find all possible concrete classes given a handle to an interface?

First of all, I think ASM is a just BCI util, instead of code analysis
util.  I think WALA
(http://wala.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) or SOOT
(http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/soot/) is what you want.

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Mark Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a code analysis question.  How can I find all possible concrete classes given a handle to an interface?  I think I need to use an Analyzer and examine Frames to keep track of it, but not sure exactly how.
>

It is a typical problem in Class Hierarchy Analysis.  In WALA, and
Eclipse JDT, we can know all concrete classes, which implement a
certain interface.  So WALA or JDT might be a better candidate for to
this problem.

> For example say I have a large codebase and am calling this method throughout my code:
>
> public class Util{
>  public static void foo(java.util.List<String> someList){
>   /**
>     some code
>    **/
>  }
> }
>
> Is there a way to find all possible concrete classes that get passed into Util::foo() ?  For example someone could pass in a java.util.ArrayList<String> or a java.util.LinkedList<String>.
>

CallGraph may help you.  You can find node Util::foo() in graph, and
then, all the prev nodes of Util::foo() node are caller methods.

> There should be someway to do a backwards data flow analysis to get this, not sure how.  Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
>
>
>
>
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