Nashorn comment nodes in the syntax tree

[Sundararajan Athijegannathan]

Hi,

I filed an enhancement request:
https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8155242

Thanks,

-Sundar


On 4/27/2016 12:40 AM, Emilian Bold wrote:
> Hello,
>
> NetBeans used a modified Rhino that had useful features for an IDE like
> comment nodes and parser-level sanitization.
>
> As far as I know there is no way to get the comments in the Nashorn Tree
> API (created as part of JEP 236) or in the jdk.nashorn.internal.ir Node
> subclasses.
>
> Obviously having access to comment contents and comment offsets is very
> useful. An IDE, for example, would provide code folding for the multiline
> comment.
>
> Am I missing some proper way to get this information?
>
> I believe an extra option for Parser.create() would be nice (plus a
> CommentTree and a visitComment method).
>
> --emi