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Spoon

Spoon is an open-source library to analyze, rewrite, transform, transpile Java source code. It parses source files to build a well-designed AST with powerful analysis and transformation API. It supports modern Java versions up to Java 20. Spoon is an official Inria open-source project, and member of the OW2 open-source consortium.

Documentation

The latest official documentation is available at https://spoon.gforge.inria.fr/.

Academic usage

If you use Spoon for academic purposes, please cite: Renaud Pawlak, Martin Monperrus, Nicolas Petitprez, Carlos Noguera, Lionel Seinturier. “Spoon: A Library for Implementing Analyses and Transformations of Java Source Code”. In Software: Practice and Experience, Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. Doi: 10.1002/spe.2346.

@article{pawlak:hal-01169705,
  TITLE = "{Spoon: A Library for Implementing Analyses and Transformations of Java Source Code}",
  AUTHOR = {Pawlak, Renaud and Monperrus, Martin and Petitprez, Nicolas and Noguera, Carlos and Seinturier, Lionel},
  JOURNAL = "{Software: Practice and Experience}",
  PUBLISHER = "{Wiley-Blackwell}",
  PAGES = {1155-1179},
  VOLUME = {46},
  URL = {https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01078532/document},
  YEAR = {2015},
  doi = {10.1002/spe.2346},
}

Professional support

If you need professional support on Spoon (development, training, extension), you are welcome to post a comment on https://github.com/INRIA/spoon/issues/3251

Getting started in 2 seconds

Java version: Spoon version 10 and up requires Java 11 or later. Spoon 9.1.0 is the final Spoon release compatible with Java 8, and we do not plan to backport any bug fixes or features to Spoon 9. Note that Spoon can of course still consume source code for older versions of Java, but it needs JDK 11+ to run.

Get latest stable version with Maven, see https://search.maven.org/artifact/fr.inria.gforge.spoon/spoon-core

And start using it:

CtClass l = Launcher.parseClass("class A { void m() { System.out.println(\"yeah\");} }");

Documentation:

Contributing in 2 seconds

Create your first pull request to improve the documentation, see doc! Proceed with your first bug fix! The community is open-minded, respectful and patient. All external contributions are welcome.

Design Philosophy

R1) The Spoon metamodel is as close as possible to the language concepts.

R2) The Spoon model of a program is complete and sound.

R3) The text version of a Spoon model is well-formed and semantically equivalent to the original program.

R4) The analysis and transformation API is intuitive and regular.

R5) Transformation operators are designed to warn as fast as possible about invalid programs. This is done either with static type checking or with dynamic checks when the operators are used.

R6) When feasible, the text version of a Spoon model is close to the original one.

Compiling

To compile Spoon, you need a Java Development Kit (JDK) and Maven:

git clone https://github.com/INRIA/spoon
cd spoon
mvn compile

To run the tests:

mvn test

Download

Latest version: https://search.maven.org/remote_content?g=fr.inria.gforge.spoon&a=spoon-core&v=LATEST&c=jar-with-dependencies - Javadoc

Maven:

<dependency>
    <groupId>fr.inria.gforge.spoon</groupId>
    <artifactId>spoon-core</artifactId>
    <!-- See rendered release value at https://spoon.gforge.inria.fr/ -->
    <version>{{site.spoon_release}}</version>
</dependency>

Releases

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License

Spoon is Free and Open Source, double-licensed under the (CeCILL-C license - French equivalent to LGPL) and the MIT license.

JProfiler

Spoon is developed with the help of JProfiler, a Java profiler by ej-technologies GmbH. JProfiler supports the development of Spoon by providing its full-featured Java Profiler for free. We thank ej-technologies GmbH for this support.

JProfiler

Github Contributors

This list is generated by chore/generate-contributor-list.py. If you're not listed or you'd like to have your full name, please post to https://github.com/INRIA/spoon/issues/3909.