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CANVE / extractor

Extracts and normalizes the type relationships and call graph of scala sbt projects.
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Add overriding relationship kind #9

Closed matanox closed 8 years ago

matanox commented 8 years ago

There is probably another relationship type missing in our model: overriding. It may be interesting for a user to be able to jump from overriding to overridden method, and vice versa. Also to answer questions like which classes override method Foo of some base class.

We can (theoretically) accomplish this by comparing method signatures, but the compiler already seems to present us with methods allOverriddenSymbols and isOverridingSymbol for symbols. Exploring the source code and reliability of these methods outputs, this can be a way to get this information directly from the compiler rather than (superfluously) inferring it through more algorithm.

matanox commented 8 years ago

Obtained now directly through a dedicated Symbol property