[metaas-dev] Changing Field names in a parsed AS3 source file

[Dave N]

Hi guys,

 I'm new here, new to java, fairly new to AS3 and very new to metaas - 
so be gentle! I hope it's ok to post to a dev list - but i couldn't find 
a user one? I've got to convert a lot of old code in lots of files to 
as3, and i've been looking for a way to automate some of it, and metaas 
looks ideal. I've been playing around with it, and tried various things 
- i'm probably doing something really dumb! I can change the name of a 
field, but when i try to save it, it never works. I've tried allsorts of 
ways and still haven't found one that works - i'm not sure if it metaas, 
java or most likely just me. Should the following work? (it writes the 
new file out, but without the change).

        ActionScriptFactory fact = new ActionScriptFactory();
        FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream("dungeon.as");
        InputStreamReader reader = new InputStreamReader(in);
        ActionScriptParser parser = fact.newParser();
        ASCompilationUnit unit = parser.parse(reader);
       
        //look for variable tileColour
        //ASPackage pkg = unit.getPackage();
        ASClassType asclass = (ASClassType)unit.getType();
        ASField field =  asclass.getField("tileColour1");
        System.out.println(field.getName());
        field.setName("wallTileColour");  
        System.out.println(field.getName());
       
        //check to see if it's been updated
        field = 
((ASClassType)unit.getType()).getField("wallTileColour");    
        System.out.println(field.getName());
       
        //ok, now add compilation unit to current project
        ActionScriptProject proj = fact.newEmptyASProject("."); 
        proj.addCompilationUnit(unit);
        proj.setOutputLocation("fixed\\");
        proj.writeAll();


I also checked out the cvs version and compiled that, but just kept give 
me a "NoViableAltException antlr" error but it's probably me done 
something wrong - are there many important updates in the cvs?

Thanks - i really like the project, i think theres a lot you could do 
with it - a C# or Java converter would be excellent! (well for me anyway).

Dave