This plugin allows to print the type and the members (fields and methods) in the that exist in the code. This structure is printed either in stdout, stderr or a file according to a property.
This plugin introduces the following concepts of Jack:
This plugin is hosted in the Jack development branch in AOSP. You can follow the instructions at http://source.android.com/source/downloading.html to setup your machine then execute the following commands
mkdir <jack_project_dir> cd <jack_project_dir> repo init -u https://android.googlesource.com/platform/manifest -b ub-jack repo sync
where <jack_project_dir> is the directory where you want to download the Jack repository.
First you need to initialize the plugin's local dependencies with the following commands
cd toolchain/jack ant dist cd jack-samples ant
Then you can build the plugin using Gradle with the following commands
cd jack-structure-printer-plugin ./gradlew
The plugin .jar file is located at build/libs/jack-structure-printer-plugin.jar.
The plugin's name is com.android.jack.sample.structureprinting.StructurePrintingSamplePlugin. Here is an example of command-line to compile source files with this plugin.
java -jar dist/jack.jar --pluginpath jack-samples/jack-structure-printer-plugin/build/libs/jack-structure-printer-plugin.jar --plugin com.android.jack.sample.structureprinting.StructurePrintingSamplePlugin -D jack.samples.structure.print.file=<output_file> --output-dex=<dex_dir> <source_files>
where <output_file> is the file where the structure will be printed (- means stdout and -- means stderr), <dex_dir> is the directory where the classes.dex file is generated and <source_files> are the source files to be compiled.
If the property jack.samples.structure.print.file is not specified, stdout will be used.
You can take a look at the Jack's command-line usage with
java -jar dist/jack.jar --help