grafana / grafana/plugin-tools

Feat: robust Go edits in the codemods

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enhancement
Dominant language
TypeScript
Stars
89
Forks
57
Avg merge
3d 17h
Merged PRs (30d)
37

Description

### Which areas does this feature request relate to
- [x] Create Plugin

### Problem
The `experimental-app-sdk` codemod (#2856) is our first codemod that edits backend Go code, and it does it with regexes. That's brittle and likely to break across plugin variations.

### Solution
Find a more robust way to edit the Go source, ideally using AST but without requiring codemods to be written in Go.

### Alternatives

### Additional context

### Are you interested in contributing the solution?
- [ ] Yes
- [x] No

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start with the experimental-app-sdk codemod referenced in issue #2856 and inspect how its regexes edit backend Go code. Compare the approach across plugin variations and define a robust AST-based editing path that does not require codemods to be written in Go; done means the codemod reliably handles those variations.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
go, typescript
Domain
tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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