sourcekitten complete on Linux not doing what I expected
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Description
I'm trying to figure out how to use sourcekitten to parse an app's source and provide useful code completions. I found an old issue (https://github.com/jpsim/SourceKitten/issues/113) but I'm not sure it's still relevant. Here's what I'm trying (copied from an old post that referenced issue 113, https://forums.swift.org/t/sorting-filtering-results/12588):
$ sourcekitten complete --text "import Foundation; let x = UR" --offset 28 '' | jq -r .
[
{
"context": "source.codecompletion.context.thisclass",
"typeName": "_",
"kind": "source.lang.swift.keyword",
"sourcetext": ".self",
"name": "self",
"numBytesToErase": 0,
"descriptionKey": "self"
}
]
The good news is it doesn't return nothing, but it doesn't return what I expected either. I was hoping it'd return something that indicates UR could be completed with URI from the Foundation module. Am I doing something wrong, and/or are most of the completions still handled by Xcode itself?
I'm running this on Linux. I'm on sourcekitten version 0.34.1 and my toolchain is Swift version 5.9.1-RELEASE.
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- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the reported sourcekitten complete command and compare its Linux output with the expected URI completion. Read issue 113 and verify the behavior using SourceKitten 0.34.1 with Swift 5.9.1-RELEASE; determine whether the result is expected on Linux or indicates a SourceKitten problem.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
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- Tech stack
- swift
- Domain
- cli, devtools
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100