Is there any Eclipse refactoring API that I can call programmatically?

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Something like this?

Anyone who supports a programming language in an Eclipse-based IDE
will be asked sooner or later to offer automated refactorings –
similar to what is provided by the Java Development Tools (JDT). Since
the release of Eclipse 3.1, at least part of this task (which is by no
means simple) is supported by a language neutral API: the Language
Toolkit (LTK). But how is this API used?

EDIT:

If you want to programmatically run refactorings without using the UI, RefactoringDescriptors (see article) can be used to fill in the parameters and execute the refactoring programmatically. If you create a plugin that depends on org.eclipse.core.runtime and add the org.eclipse.core.runtime.applications extension, you will be able to run an IApplication class from eclipse similar to a main(String[]) class in plain java apps. An example of calling the API can be found on the post.

ICompilationUnit cu = ... // an ICompilationUnit to rename

RefactoringContribution contribution =
    RefactoringCore.getRefactoringContribution(IJavaRefactorings .RENAME_COMPILATION_UNIT);
RenameJavaElementDescriptor descriptor =
    (RenameJavaElementDescriptor) contribution.createDescriptor();
descriptor.setProject(cu.getResource().getProject().getName( ));
descriptor.setNewName("NewClass"); // new name for a Class
descriptor.setJavaElement(cu);

RefactoringStatus status = new RefactoringStatus();
try {
    Refactoring refactoring = descriptor.createRefactoring(status);

    IProgressMonitor monitor = new NullProgressMonitor();
    refactoring.checkInitialConditions(monitor);
    refactoring.checkFinalConditions(monitor);
    Change change = refactoring.createChange(monitor);
    change.perform(monitor);

} catch (CoreException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
} catch (Exception e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
}

If you have more detailed questions about using the JDT APIs (AST, Refactoring, etc) I’d suggest you ask on the JDT Forum.

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