New release coming: Spoon-5.6.0

[surli]

Hi everyone,

we planned to do a new release of Spoon in the next days, after fixing the last bugs spotted here.
So release 5.6.0 should be published thursday or friday if everything's ok!

[tdurieux]

New features

• Add filter helpers (FieldReferenceFunction, FieldScopeFunction, SubtypeFilter). (PR: review FieldReferenceFunction, FieldScopeFunction, SubtypeFilter #1141)
• ParentFunction is able to terminate early. (PR: review: feature: Parent function #1211)
• Introduces CtScannerFunction as basic infrastructure for advanced functions and queries. (PR: review: introduction of CtScannerFunction #1180)
• Add support for CtScannerListener in EarlyTerminatingScanner. (PR: feature CtScannerListener listens for nodes of EarlyTerminatingScanner #1210)
• Automatic explicit ThisAccess for fields. (PR: feature: automatic explicit ThisAccess for fields #1192)
• CtLambda#getMethod() and fix of bug: Lambda parameter references are not equal #1159. (PR: feature: CtLambda#getMethod() and fix of #1159 #1164)
• Add helper for query variables (VariableReferenceFunction, VariableScopeFunction). (PR: review: feature: VariableReferenceFunction, VariableScopeFunction #1114)
• Add helper for query to get parents of element. (PR: review: feature: ParentFunction #1153)
• Add query functions AllTypeMembersFunction and SuperInheritanceHierarchyFunction. (PR: review: feature: All type members function #1195)
• Add filter helpers (LocalVariableReferenceFunction, LocalVariableScopeFunction). (PR: review LocalVariableReferenceFunction, LocalVariableScopeFunction #1144)
• Add filtering helpers (CatchVariableReferenceFunction, CatchVariableScopeFunction). (PR: review CatchVariableReferenceFunction, CatchVariableScopeFunction #1145)
• Add filtering helpers (ParameterReferenceFunction, ParameterScopeFunction). (PR: review ParameterReferenceFunction, ParameterScopeFunction #1136)
• Add support for early terminating queries with CtQuery#first(). (PR: feature: early terminating query #1138)
• Add support for getting all children with CtQuery#filterChildren(null). (PR: feature CtQuery#filterChildren(null) #1140)
• Add CtQuery#select(Filter). (PR: feature CtQuery#select(Filter) #1142)
• Add query factory. (PR: Query factory #1093)
• Add metamodel method CtTypeParameter#getTypeParameterDeclarer(). (PR: review 1: feature: CtTypeParameter#getTypeDeclarer() #1217)
• Reusable and efficient CtQueries. (PR: feature: reusable and efficient CtQueries #1090)
• filter: Template matchers can be used as filter. (PR: Template matcher implemented as Filter #1110)

Bug Fixes

• CtMethod#isDefaultMethod. (PR: fix: Consumer#andThen isDefaultMethod() #1165)
• Fix wrong behavior for special cases in removeStatement. Closes bug in removeStatement #1221. (PR: review: Add a unit test to show issue #1221. Propose a simple fix. #1224)
• Inner interfaces should be properly handled in CtTypeReferenceImpl#canAccess. (PR: fix CtTypeReferenceImpl#canAccess of protected and interface members #1189)
• LocalVariableScopeFunction handles CtFor, CtTryWithResource, local classes. (PR: review: fix LocalVariableScopeFunction - CtFor, CtTryWithResource, Local class, shadow variables, ... #1154)
• Fix regression with a lambda expression extends Function. (PR: fix: bug regression with lambda expression when extending Function #1178)
• CtExecutableReference#isOverriding correctly handles anonymous classes. (PR: review 1: fix CtExecutableReference#isOverriding on anonymous class #1219)
• Fix autoimport regression. (PR: review: fix bugs related to import mechanism #1162)
• Bug in isSubtypeOf (broken contract X.isSubtypeOf(X)==true). (PR: fix bug in isSubtypeOf (broken contract X.isSubtypeOf(X)==true) #1157)
• Improve static import support in auto-import mode. (PR: Improve pretty-printer and import mechanism with static imports #1155)
• Fix regression (NPE) in DefaultJavaPrettyPrinter. (PR: review: Fix regression spotted in Casper project #1214)
• GetSuperClass does not throw exception in noClassPath mode. (PR: Fixes #1125. #1128)
• Fix NPE when Spoon in executed from an empty working dir. (PR: Fix NPE when empty working dir #1208)
• Visibility detection issue in CtElement element.toString() crashes with a NP in DefaultJavaPrettyPrinter.visitCtTypeReference() #1099. (PR: fix of ElasticSearch access path problem #1099 #1102)
• CtQuery: CCE on Query#forEach call of CtConsumer#apply. (PR: fix CCE on Query#forEach call of CtConsumer#apply #1126)
• comment: Support comment on string concatenation. (PR: fix(comment): support comment on string concatenation #1124)
• noclasspath: Fix the qualified name of partial qualified reference (inner class). (PR: fix(noclasspath): fix the qualified name of partial qualified reference (inner class) #1201)

Documentation

• Adds hyperlink to the Spoon paper.
• Announces the OW2 membership. (PR: doc: announces the OW2 membership #1151)
• Update ecosystem (one single file to maintain + added syringe). (PR: update ecosystem (one single file to maintain + added syringe) #1147)
• Add links to changelogs (doc: add links to changelogs (closes #1083) #1133). (PR: doc: add links to changelogs (closes #1083) #1133)
• Add support files for FOSDEM'17. (PR: misc: add support file for FOSDEM'17 #1148)
• Remove outdated last-updated information on pages. (PR: chore: Remove last updated information on pages. #1177)
• More specific doc about the release process. (PR: doc:Few changes to be more specific in release process #1131)
• Fixes broken menu (doc: fixes broken menu (closes #1121) #1122). (PR: doc: fixes broken menu (closes #1121) #1122)
• Fix javadoc JDK8 rules. (PR: doc: Fix javadoc respecting JDK8 rules for the last PR. #1112)
• Prepare internal doc for the new release. (PR: doc: Prepare internal doc for the new release #1109)
• license: Update license year. (PR: chore(license):Update license year #1130)

Refactoring

• Improve and simplify usage of PotentialVariableDeclarationFunction. (PR: review: improve PotentialVariableDeclarationFunction, simplify its usage #1194)
• Remove FieldScopeFunction. (PR: feature: remove FieldScopeFunction #1186)
• Remove deprecated elements from version 5.4.0. (PR: refactoring: clean deprecated elements from version 5.4.0 #1135)

Performance

• Improve performance of DirectReferenceFilter. (PR: improve performance of DirectReferenceFilter #1132)

Tests

• Reduce the scope of the testSettersAreAllGood test. (PR: test: reduce the scope of the testSettersAreAllGood test #1196)

Other

• Only publish revapi report if the PR is edited or opened. (PR: chore:only publish revapi report if the PR is edited or opened. #1161)
• Revapi configuration and helper scripts to detect API breaking changes. (PR: chore(maven): Change pom.xml to add revapi  #1115)
• travis: Travis must check that javadoc is well-formed. (PR: travis: Remove the -Xdoclint parameter in pom.xml fix #1106 #1107)

Unknown

• Prepare for next development iteration.

Authors

Name	Nb Commit
Pavel Vojtechovsky	29
Simon Urli	17
Martin Monperrus	5
Thomas Durieux	3
Marcel Steinbeck	1

[monperrus]

Thanks to all contributors, and special kudos to @pvojtechovsky for the awesome work