Re: [Vala] lexical analysis using libvala

[Serge Hulne <serge hulne gmail com>]

I am new to Vala, so my remarks might be naive, but:

1) Is there not some kind of source code parser already included in
Valadoc that you could reuse (as opposed to writing something from
scratch).

2) Is there not and AST parser somewhere in Vala anyway ?

3) Why not parse the vapi files ?

4) Why not derive your analyser from the way the vapi files generator
parses the Vala code ?

If my remarks are obvious or naive, please ignore them.

Serge.




On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Maga Abdurakhmanov <maqdev gmail com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm working on vala plugin for netbeans, and have some questions regarding
> libvala and parsing (scanning) using libvala. My existing version of plugin
> is implemented using antlr and it's not easy to maintain and support all the
> features of vala.
>
> So I've come up with the idea to use libvala to parse files and integrate it
> somehow with java part of plugin.
>
> Now i'm trying to parse vala files using libvala, and i've made some
> progress but got problems with parsing of code comments.
>
> Here is my tryout to parse vala files:
> https://github.com/carbonfx/netbeans-valaproject/blob/libvala/plugin/libvalaproxy/src/valaparser/vala-parser.vala
> I've made some hacks to get comments from source, and it doesn't looks right
> for me. For example I'm calling scanner.parse_file_comments(); before each
> call of read_token method.
>
> Is there any way to get comments and correct line and column number for
> comments using Scanner class?
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Magomed
>
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