HELP: Suitable datastructure for classes

[Fahd Shariff]

Hi,
Can anyone suggest a suitable datastructure to represent java classes?
I have information of a given class e.g what its name is, what methods it has, what
fields etc. I need to store this information in some way.
Should i just have something like this:
//a classstructure object which has a list of methods and fields and
whatever else there is...
class ClassStructure
{
String name ;
List methods ;
List fields ;
//the usual getter/setter methods
addMethod(MethodStructure m) ;
addField(FieldStructure f) ;
}
class MethodStructure
{
String name ;
List parameters ;
String body ;
//etc
}
I hope you understand what i am doing.
Is this the best way to represent a java class???
I need to do this so that i can carry out quick searches on source code. For example,
I want to be able to say something like: "Get me all the
methods whose names begin with "get*" and return a String". So the program would
return
getName(), getAddress() etc. I do not want to carry out a full text search.
Any comments would be appreciated

[Cindy Glass]

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