How to recreate a class with JavaPoet?

Question

I'm trying to recreate a class using JavaPoet. What's the best way to do this?

Basically, I want to generate another class with one method with appended statements.

Answer 1

JavaPoet can’t easily modify existing code. This is potentially quite difficult because features like import resolution rely on parsing types properly.

You might be able to cheat by emitting a new file and then using a StringBuilder to manually concatenate imports and members. You might need some regexes.