jaredly / jaredly/example-reason-codemod
Detect a function of a given module?
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Description
Thanks for creating these codemod utils and example! 🙂 Really cool.
I'm exploring if I could use this codemod for the migrations of BuckleScript `Js` modules proposed in https://github.com/BuckleScript/bucklescript/issues/2975. I wonder how I could approach the detection of usages of some specific functions in `Js.X` modules:
If I use syntactic analysis (e.g. use `Pexp_ident` to match against the function names) it might not be effective in all cases, for example the function can be called with `Js.Array.map` or just `map` if the `Js.Array` module has been opened before.
There is `getExprType` which is awesome but it just works at the type level, so I wouldn't know which function has been called, only the type of the expression.
Is there an approach that I'm missing to do this kind of detection in an accurate way?
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Research direction
Review the codemod utils and example, then investigate how Pexp_ident and getExprType handle calls such as Js.Array.map and an opened-module map. Compare whether the available syntax and type information can identify the called function accurately. Done means documenting a reliable detection approach or the limitation that prevents it.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- ocaml
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
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- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100