How to programmatically create literals using Eclipse AST

Question

How to create different types of objects and literals using Eclipse AST?

ie To create primitives like 'c', 1, 1.5f . To create objects literals like new Employee('str')

Answer 1

You have to use AST class, here's a documentation for it.

For example creating a StringLiteral which contains Hello World phrase.

AST ast = newAST(AST.JLS4)
StringLiteral literal = ast.newStringLiteral();
literal.setLiteralValue("Hello World");