Parse d source file by using compiler
BBasile via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Sun Nov 8 23:21:06 PST 2015
On Monday, 9 November 2015 at 05:49:25 UTC, tcak wrote:
> I checked for a flag in this page
> http://dlang.org/dmd-linux.html , but couldn't have found any
> for this purpose.
>
> Is there a way to parse a d source file so it generates a tree
> in JSON, XML, or something-that-can-be-processed-easily file
> format?
>
> ---
>
> My real purpose:
>
> I need to generate hash code (e.g. MD5) for a part of source
> code (let's say a class, struct, or a function). So whether the
> codes are changed or not can be detected. As you will guess,
> comments, text formatting etc. shouldn't affect the hash result.
>
>
> Use-Case:
>
> I am writing a code generator/back up system. It will check the
> last available code file. If important changes are done in a
> specific part of code, it will increase version number by 1.
You could write your own tool using libdparse[1]: parse, visit
the AST, create a signature for the declarations that are
interesting.
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https://github.com/Hackerpilot/libdparse
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