[ITK-dev] Clang scripting to make code changes

[Johnson, Hans J]

I use clang tidy.  

I have not written any custom filters.

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> On Sep 9, 2016, at 12:18 PM, Lowekamp, Bradley (NIH/NLM/LHC) [C] <blowekamp at mail.nih.gov> wrote:
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> Hans,
> 
> If I recall correctly you have used a clang based tool to make context based changes on ITK code before.
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> To addresses some dynamic_cast failures which can occur with Xcode based tools, we are considering the patch to change dynamic_cast to Object::SafeDownCast[1]. One issue is finding a good way to to update dynamic_casts.
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> With the clang based tool can we change “dynamic_cast<TObject>(arg)” to “TObject::SafeDownCast(arg)” only if TObject has itk::LightObject as some ancestor class?
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> Thanks,
> Brad
> 
> [1] http://review.source.kitware.com/#/c/21499/