Rose::EditDistance::TreeEditDistance Namespace Reference

Description

Analysis to determine how to make one AST look like another.

Actually editing one tree have the same shape as another is, in many cases, nonsensical but the edit distance metric is nonetheless useful to determine the similarity of two trees. See Analysis::compute for details about how this analysis is implemented.

The way the analysis is used is like this:

using namespace Rose::EditDistance;
SgNode *ast1 = ...;                  // The first subtree
SgNode *ast2 = ...;                  // Second subtree
TreeEditDistance::Analysis ted;      // Object for performing the analysis
ted.substitutionCost(0.0);           // Adjust some parameters
ted.compute(ast1, ast2);             // Run the analysis
double cost = ted.cost();            // Query some results

Or in one expression:

double cost = TreeEditDistance::Analysis() .substitutionCost(0.0) .compute(ast1, ast2) .cost();

The analysis object can be reused as many times as one likes by calling its compute method with different trees. The query methods always return the same results until the next call to compute.

Classes
class	Analysis
	Analysis object for tree edit distance. More...
struct	Edit
	A single edit operation. More...
class	SubstitutionPredicate
	Base class for substitution prediates. More...

Typedefs
typedef std::vector< Edit >	Edits
	List of edit operations.

Enumerations
enum	EditType {   INSERT,   DELETE,   SUBSTITUTE }
	Type of edit operation. More...

Functions
std::ostream &	operator<< (std::ostream &, const TreeEditDistance::Edit &)

Enumeration Type Documentation

EditType

enum Rose::EditDistance::TreeEditDistance::EditType

Type of edit operation.

Enumerator
INSERT	Insert a node from another tree.
DELETE	Delete a node from this tree.
SUBSTITUTE	Substitute a node; same as an insert-delete pair.

Definition at line 60 of file TreeEditDistance.h.