Developer FAQ

How can I interactively execute the Symja language?

two REPLs are available in the library a Console.java for standard math input and a MMAConsole.java for Mathematica like syntax input.

package org.matheclipse.core.builtin
and package org.matheclipse.core.reflection.system contain the buit-in functions implementation

add the new name to AST2Expr.FUNCTION_STRINGS
run the development tool FunctionIDGenerator and copy the generated source code to the file ID.java
run the development tool BuiltinGenerator and replace the corresponding section with the generated source code in the file S.java
if you like you can define Java "function stubs" for your function in the file F.java
if you plan to implement a bunch of new built-in functions you can open an issue and we create the corresponding templates for you.
here is an example commit #939f6de, #8d6594a for a simple Beep() function.
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They are defined in the /rules folder and translated to Java code with the Rule-preprocessor

in package org.matheclipse.core.parser the main ExprParser class is implemented to transform an input string directly to an IExpr object
the basic parser structures are defined in package org.matheclipse.parser.client this Parser can be used on the client side without the whole Symja stuff. Inside Symja the AST2Expr class is used to transform the client side ASTNode into an IExpr.
all operators and their affix, associativity, and precedence are defined in the ASTNodeFactory class
another "fuzzy parser" FuzzyParser.java is implemented for the parsing of JSON API input queries.

it's implemented in package org.matheclipse.core.patternmatching
the "Rubi Integration" rules are implemented with structural pattern-matching. See: Porting Rubi Integration rules to Symja

the class CompleteTestSuite starts the main JUnit test cases
in class LowercaseTestCase you can find an example for almost all built-in functions.
the "Rubi Integration" rules implementation has their own JUnit test classes. See: Porting Rubi Integration rules to Symja

If you want to work with Eclipse the package Eclipse IDE for Java Developers provides everything you need.
If you prefer another Eclipse package make sure you have Eclipse JDT and the Eclipse Maven integration (m2e) installed.

Clone the repository you want to work with to your computer and add it to your IDE.

It is recommended to create a fork and clone your fork if you want to contribute to Symja, but it is also possible to clone this repository directly.
If you are not yet familiar with the usual github work flow for contributions, consider to read this GitHub article.

In Eclipse it is recommended to do this via File -> Import... -> Git -> Projects from Git (with smart import) -> Click Next -> Existing local repository -> select your local Symja clone and click Next. -> Select all folders except for the root folder.
In Eclipse it is additionally recommended to enable automatic Maven project configuration via Window -> Preferences -> Maven -> Automatically update Maven project configuration (which is currently an experimental feature of m2e). Additionally you could consider to enable automatic download of artifact sources and java-doc. If you don't want to enable automatic project configuration update, you have to trigger the project configuration update manually via right click on the project -> Maven -> Update Project ...

The Google Java Formatter, which reformats Java source code to comply with Google Java Style, is used for formatting Java source codes.
Equivalent Google Java Style Formatter configurations for Eclipse and Intellij are also available and can be imported into the corresponding IDE.
- In Eclipse you can import the downloaded configuration via Window -> Preferences -> Java -> Code Style -> Formatter -> Click on Import... and select the downloaded configuration file.

On the command line run the following Maven command from the root of this git repository's local clone: mvn clean verify -f symja_android_library
- In Eclipse you can just run the symja--build launch-configuration

This compiles all Symja modules, executes all tests and builds all jars including runtime, source and java-doc jars.