Global Context

→ contains information and data structures that are fixed during the processing of a single source file/AST

• part of the processing context

May contain:

• information about the current project that is processed
• information about the current file (e.g. source file path)
• a reference to the AST root node
• additional object references to native tools, like language server APIs etc.

Implementation

classDiagram
	class GlobalContext {
		+ProjectInfo projectInfo
		+String sourceFilePath
		...
	}

• ProjectInfo just refers to some generic data class containing information about the currently scanned project, like its root path or project metadata (name, version, etc.)
  • this class may be self-implemented, or provided by external APIs