How to programmatically create literals using Eclipse AST

Question

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

i.e. 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");