Use grammar's name parsing.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/javaparser-core/src/main/java/com/github/javaparser/JavaParser.java b/javaparser-core/src/main/java/com/github/javaparser/JavaParser.java
index b09b4a729..1f89e75da 100644
--- a/javaparser-core/src/main/java/com/github/javaparser/JavaParser.java
+++ b/javaparser-core/src/main/java/com/github/javaparser/JavaParser.java
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ import com.github.javaparser.ast.body.BodyDeclaration;
 import com.github.javaparser.ast.comments.CommentsCollection;
 import com.github.javaparser.ast.expr.AnnotationExpr;
 import com.github.javaparser.ast.expr.Expression;
+import com.github.javaparser.ast.expr.Name;
 import com.github.javaparser.ast.expr.VariableDeclarationExpr;
 import com.github.javaparser.ast.stmt.BlockStmt;
 import com.github.javaparser.ast.stmt.ExplicitConstructorInvocationStmt;
@@ -415,4 +416,15 @@ public final class JavaParser {
     public static ExplicitConstructorInvocationStmt parseExplicitConstructorInvocationStmt(String statement) {
         return simplifiedParse(EXPLICIT_CONSTRUCTOR_INVOCATION_STMT, provider(statement));
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Parses a qualified name (one that can have "."s in it) and returns it as a Name.
+     *
+     * @param qualifiedName a name like "com.laamella.parameter_source"
+     * @return the AST for the name
+     * @throws ParseProblemException if the source code has parser errors
+     */
+    public static Name parseName(String qualifiedName) {
+        return simplifiedParse(NAME, provider(qualifiedName));
+    }
 }