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Insert Block from a different AST inside MethodDeclaration [message #1768644]

Thu, 20 July 2017 22:06

Cesar Orozco

Messages: 2
Registered: July 2017

Junior Member

I have a JDT AST MethodDeclaration difined like this:

MethodDeclaration md = ast.newMethodDeclaration();
SimpleName sn = ast.newSimpleName("myMethod");
md.setName(sn);

Then I created an Block based on a String that contains some Java code, like this:

String body = "int a = 1;\n int b = 2;\n return (a + b);";
ASTParser parser = ASTParser.newParser(AST.JLS8);
parser.setSource(body.toCharArray());
parser.setKind(ASTParser.K_STATEMENTS);

Block block = (Block) parser.createAST(null);

Now I'm trying to insert the Block into the MethodDeclaration object as the body of the method so at the end it should look likt this:

void myMethod(){
    int a = 1;
    int b = 2;
    return (a + b);
}

But when I do this:

md.setBody(block);

It fails with this exception:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
	at org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.ASTNode.checkNewChild(ASTNode.java:2083)
	at org.eclipse.jdt.core.dom.ASTNode$NodeList.add(ASTNode.java:1417)
	at java.util.AbstractList.add(AbstractList.java:119)
	at java.util.AbstractCollection.addAll(AbstractCollection.java:355)

And debugged the ASTNode.checkNewChild and I can see this comment there: