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 fully supports modern Java versions up to Java 16. Spoon is an official Inria open-source project, and member of the OW2 open-source consortium.

Documentation

The latest official documentation is available at http://spoon.gforge.inria.fr/ and a regularly updated PDF version is as https://projects.ow2.org/download/spoon/WebHome/spoon-user-manual.pdf.

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 INRIA/spoon#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.

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:

Reference documentation: http://spoon.gforge.inria.fr/ (contains the content of the doc folder)
Code examples: https://github.com/SpoonLabs/spoon-examples
Videos: Spoon: Getting Started - Simon Urli @ OW2Con'18 (Paris), Generate Test Assertion with Spoon - Benjamin Danglot @ OW2Con'17 (Paris)

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 http://spoon.gforge.inria.fr/ -->
    <version>{{site.spoon_release}}</version>
</dependency>

Releases

August 2021: Spoon 9.1.0 (changelog)
March 2021: Spoon 9.0.0 (changelog)
October 2020: Spoon 8.3.0 (changelog)
July 2020: Spoon 8.2.0 (changelog)
March 2020: Spoon 8.1.0 (changelog)
November 2019, Spoon 8.0.0 (changelog)
July 2019: Spoon 7.5.0 is released (changelog)
May 2019: Spoon 7.4.0 is released (changelog)
Februray 10, 2019: Spoon 7.3.0 is released (changelog)
December 4, 2018: Spoon 7.2.0 is released (changelog)
October 10, 2018: Spoon 7.1.0 is released (changelog)
July 4, 2018: Spoon 7.0.0 is released (changelog)
March 8, 2018: Spoon 6.2.0 is released (changelog)
December 20, 2017: Spoon 6.1.0 is released, merry christmas! 🎄 (changelog)
November 17, 2017: Spoon 6.0.0 is released! Check the (changelog) as there are few non backward-compatible changes ⚠️
September 6, 2017: Spoon 5.9.0 is released (changelog) back-to-work release!
July 11, 2017: Spoon 5.8.0 is released (changelog) Summer release 🍺 To be prefered wrt the previous one: fix lot of bugs.
June 01, 2017: Spoon 5.7.0 is released (changelog)
March 16, 2017: Spoon 5.6.0 is released (changelog) Spring release :-)
January 11, 2017: Spoon 5.5.0 is released (changelog). Happy new year!
October 27, 2016: Spoon 5.4.0 is released (changelog).
September 19, 2016: Spoon 5.3.0 is released (changelog).
June 30, 2016: Spoon 5.2.0 is released (changelog).
June 22, 2016: Spoon 5.1.1 is released (changelog).
March 21, 2016: Spoon 5.1.0 is released (changelog).
February 12, 2016: Spoon 5.0.2 is released (changelog).
February 3, 2016: Spoon 5.0.1 is released (changelog).
January 25, 2016: Spoon 5.0.0 is released (changelog).
November 18, 2015: Spoon 4.4.1 is released (changelog).
November 16, 2015: Spoon 4.4.0 is released (changelog).
September 22, 2015: Spoon 4.3.0 is released (changelog).
June 15, 2015: Spoon 4.2.0 is released (changelog).
May 7, 2015: Spoon 4.1.0 is released (changelog).
April 8, 2015: Spoon 4.0.0 is released (changelog).
February 11, 2015: Spoon 3.1 is released (changelog).
December 9, 2014: Spoon 3.0 is released (changelog).
November 12, 2014: Spoon 2.4 is released (changelog).
October 9, 2014: Spoon 2.3.1 is released (changelog).
September 12, 2014: Spoon 2.1 is released (changelog).
April 2, 2014: Spoon 2.0 is released (changelog).
September 30, 2013: Spoon 1.6 is released.
April 12, 2012: Spoon 1.5 is released.

License

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

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 INRIA/spoon#3909.

adamjryan
Alcides Fonseca
Alexander Shopov
André Cruz
andrewbwogi
Antoine Mottier
argius
Arnaud Blouin
Artamm
Artur Bosch
aryan
Ashutosh Kumar Verma
aveuiller
Benoit Cornu
Benjamin DANGLOT
César Soto Valero
Charm
ChrisSquare
Christopher Stokes
Clemens Bartz
Clément Fournier
Darius Sas
Diorcet Yann
dufaux
dwayneb
dya-tel
Eddie T
Egor Bredikhin
Fabien DUMINY
fangzhen
Fan Long
fav
Fernanda Madeiral
Filip Krakowski
Gérard Paligot
gibahjoe
GluckZhang
Gregor Zeitlinger
Haris Adzemovic
HectorSM
Horia Constantin
jakobbraun
Jan Galinski
jon
Kai Luo
Lakshya A Agrawal
leventov
Lionel Seinturier
lodart
Lukas Krejci
Luke Merrick
Marcel Manseer
Marcel Steinbeck
Martin Monperrus
MartinWitt
Matias Martinez
Maxime CLEMENT
Maxim Stefanov
Mehdi Kaytoue
Michael Täge
Mickael Istria
Miguel Sozinho Ramalho
Mikael Forsberg
Muhammet Ali AKBAY
Nicolas Harrand
Nicolas Petitprez
Noah Santschi-Cooney
Carlos Noguera
Ondřej Šebek
Pavel Vojtechovsky
peroksid90
Phillip Schichtel
Quentin LE DILAVREC
raymogg
Renaud Pawlak
Rhys Compton
Rick Kellogg
Rijnard van Tonder
Rohitesh Kumar Jain
Roman Leventov
santos-samuel
scootafew
Scott Dickerson
Scott Pinwell
Sébastien Bertrand
Sergey Fedorov
Shantanu
Simon Larsén
Simon Urli
srlm
ST0NEWALL
Stefan Wolf
Thomas Durieux
tiagodrcarvalho
Tomasz Zieliński
Urs Keller
Vincenzo Musco
Wolfgang Schmiesing
Wouter Smeenk
Wreulicke
Yann Diorcet
Zhang Xindong
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