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Making the library language-agnostic

Open LPeter1997 opened this issue 7 months ago • 2 comments

Hey, this looks like a lovely library, than you for easing the pain of setting up design-time builds!

We are working on a new .NET language, Draco and we'd love to use this library to extract references for example for our language server. Unfortunately from what I gathered, the library has only the 3 main .NET langs hardcoded for command parsing: C#, VB and F#, so we can't exactly extract that data for a custom language.

Is there any chance for this limitation to be eliminated? While I didn't dig deep into the library, I imagine we'd need to introduce an interface like so:

interface ICommandParser
{
    // Lang name tag, optional
    string Language { get; }

    // Returns true, if this parser can handle the compiler that's being invoked. Replaces ProcessFscCommandLine, ProcessCscCommandLine, ...
    bool IsLanguageCompilerInvocation(object sender, BuildMessageEventArgs e);

    // Replaces Compiler.CommandLine.Parse
    CompilerCommand Parse(DirectoryInfo? baseDir, string commandLine);
}

And then have a collection of these language parsers, AnalyzerManager or AnalyzerManagerOptions looks like an OK place for this. By default, the existing languages (C#, VB and F#) would have an implementation for this interface, but consumers of the package could implement this interface for any language they'd want.

Let me know what you think!

LPeter1997 avatar Jul 12 '24 11:07 LPeter1997