PathMiner

A tool/library for mining of path-based representations of code. Work in progress.

About

This is an offspring of an internal utility from our ongoing research project.

Currently it supports extraction of path-based representations from code in Java and Python, but it is designed to be very easily extensible.

A new programming language can be supported in a few simple steps:

1. Add the corresponding ANTLR4 grammar file to the antlr directory;
2. Run the antlr4 Gradle task to generate the parser;
3. Implement a very minimal wrapper around the generated parser. See JavaParser or PythonParser for reference.

A few simple usage examples can be run with ./gradlew run.

A somewhat more verbose example of usage in Java is available as well.

The default output format is inspired by code2vec.

Contribution

We believe that, thanks to extensibility, PathMiner could be valuable for many other researchers. However, our vision of potential applications is tunneled by our own work.

Please help make PathMiner easier to use by sharing your potential use cases. We would also appreciate pull requests with code improvements, more usage examples, documentation, etc.