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Are either of these exposed conveniently to build on? One scenario I dealt with recently was replacing a pattern that required rudimentary type resolution to apply properly.

Specifically,

    While($conn.hasrows()){
        …
        $conn.commit()
    }
Where $conn needed to be of a specific connection class to be a match.

I ended up taking a Java parser, adding simple type resolution myself, and then the rest of the find-replace logic from there. I wouldn’t expect a tree-sitter based tool to deal with types, but if there’s a hook to add metadata to the parse tree and replace utilizing it, then this might have saved me some trouble



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