benjamn / benjamn/ast-types

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Description

I want to visit an AST, but exclude CallExpression arguments. How can I do this? Given the script below, I'm missing almost all identifiers

```
const { parse } = require('recast')
const { visit } = require('ast-types')

const src = `
[
() => ((x() ? y() : z()) + y()).len() + (auth(creator).lower(1) + year()).len(">", 0).postfix(_) + title().len(">", 0).lower() + other(),
() => x()
]
`

const idents = {
visitIdentifier(path) {
console.log(path.node.name)
this.traverse(path)
},
visitCallExpression(path) {
this.traverse(path.get('callee'))
// this.traverse(path)
},
}

let ast = parse(src)
ast = visit(ast, idents)
```

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Research direction

Start with the visit API and the visitCallExpression example in the issue, then inspect how path.get('callee') differs from traversing the full path. Reproduce the script and compare the identifiers logged with the intended exclusion; done means the traversal visits the desired nodes without CallExpression arguments.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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