ionide / ionide/FsAutoComplete
Provide an AST model of a file or selection
- Dominant language
- F#
- Stars
- 486
- Forks
- 169
- Avg merge
- 2d 8h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 5
Description
It would be helpful for tool developers (or those developing an analyzer!) to have an easy way to view the AST of the current file/the current selection in some way. I was thinking endpoints like:
```
type AstMode = | Text // later on add a 'json' or 'graph' mode or something for better views
type GetDocumentAstParams =
{ Document: TextDocumentIdentifier
AstMode: AstMode }
let getAstForTextDocument: GetDocumentAstParams -> LspResult
type GetSelectionAstParams =
{ Document: TextDocumentIdentifier
Range:
AstMode: AstMode }
let getAstForSelection: GetSelectionAstParams -> LspResult
```
And then clients could specify the format they wanted and render accordingly. First pass could just be the `sprintf "%A"` representation of the AST, but later iterations could embed more of the functionality found in https://jindraivanek.gitlab.io/ast-viewer/ into dedicated views if there was demand.
This is a bit of a selfish feature, because having this would make writing analyzers easier for me specifically :)
Contributor guide
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by reviewing the repository's existing LSP request surface and the AST-viewer reference linked in the issue. Done should be defined as an agreed request design for whole-document and selection AST output, including the initial text format.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- fsharp
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100