macschema

Toolchain for generating JSON definitions for Apple APIs like this:

Getting macschema

You can download from releases or use Homebrew:

$ brew install progrium/taps/macschema

Chrome is required for downloading topic data. You can also use headless Chrome in Docker. We recommend chromedp/headless-shell.

Using macschema

The macschema tool has several subcommands for downloading topics from Apple documentation and parsing topics into schemas. The commands will assume they can use two directories in the working directory: api and doc, where schemas and topics are downloaded and saved as JSON.

To pull and show a schema, which will download relevant topics and parse into schema:

$ macschema pull appkit/nswindow --show

Other commands:

$ macschema
Generates JSON definitions for Apple APIs

Usage:
  macschema [command]

Available Commands:
  crawl       Downloads topics linked from a topic to doc dir
  fetch       Download a topic to doc dir
  help        Help about any command
  pull        Generate a schema in api dir fetching topics if needed

Flags:
  -h, --help          help for macschema
      --lang string   use language (default "objc")
      --show          show resulting JSON to stdout
  -v, --version       version for macschema

Use "macschema [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Project Status

Currently able to generate schemas for most classes, but other high level constructs coming soon:

• [x] Classes
• [ ] Functions
• [ ] Typedefs and enums
• [ ] Constants / variables

Currently it focuses on Objective-C APIs, but is designed to support Swift in the future if needed.

Declaration Parsing / AST

There is a lexer/parser system and AST for Objective-C declarations in declparse. This is where most development will happen to support new language constructs, so if you run into a problem it may involve a declaration that has not been added to tests.

For debugging parser issues, you can use a lexer tool to see what tokens the parser is working with:

$ echo "@interface NSScreen : NSObject" | go run ./tools/lexer/main.go

About

macschema come out of the macdriver project, primarily for code generation use.

MIT Licensed