How to have an AbstractAnalyzer without AnalyzerType category?

[ignatirabo]

Hello, I am implementing a Ghidra extension for which I created a class that extends AbstractAnalyzer , which forces me to provide an AnalyzerType

My goal for my class to execute only once at the end of the execution of all other analyzers.

For now I extended AbstractAnalzyer and implemented added and it works, but it executes my code many times which is not needed. I cannot find another class that behaves this way.

Maybe I need to implement ExtensionPoint instead?

Thanks in advance.

[dev747368]

There are a couple current analyzers that also only want to run once. They do a bit of hacky stuff to accomplish it.

For an example, check out

ghidra/Ghidra/Features/Base/src/main/java/ghidra/app/plugin/core/analysis/DWARFAnalyzer.java

Lines 75 to 85 in 502eea1

	long txId = program.getCurrentTransactionInfo().getID();
	if (txId == lastTxId) {
	// Only run once per analysis session - as denoted by being in the same transaction
	return true;
	}
	lastTxId = txId;
	if (isAlreadyImported(program)) {
	Msg.info(this, "DWARF already imported, skipping.");
	return false;
	}