Question about Code completion of CodeLite

[ollydbg]

Hi, eran.
From the link CodeLite IDE LiteEditor/Setting Up Code Completion
It seems you have removed the "ctags" code from the CodeLite project. So all the parsing is done by your own parser?
Am I right?

By the way, I'm ollydbg, I have some interests to prove the CodeCompletion in CodeBlocks, so, is it possible to incorporate the new parser mechanism in CodeBlocks's CC plugin? thanks.

Edit:
Oh, I check the svn log, found that

- Fixed: if a file is taking more than 10 seconds to parse, the file's parsing is aborted (codelite_indexer is restarted) in addition if the parsing output is larger than 15MB, the file parsing is aborted and codelite_indexer is restarted

So, the codelite_indexer is still used if the parser failed?

[eranif]

t seems you have removed the "ctags" code from the CodeLite project. So all the parsing is done by your own parser?
Am I right?

Nope. codelite still uses ctags (codelite_indexer - a derived version of ctags (fixed parsing issues), using named-pipes/unix domain sockets to communicate with codelite IDE) to build an initial lookup-table.

The actual parsing of statements/expressions is done by the yacc grammar + custom code.

so if a user types this:

Code: Select all

wxString str;
str.AfterFirst().

the parsing is done in this manner:
1) resolve str - this is done by the yacc grammar to locate local variables
2) once str is resolved into wxString, codelite uses the lookup-table to locate all members/methods (including inheritance, etc.)
3) If a match is found from the lookup table to AfterFirst() - codelite analyzes the return code (in our example: wxString) - again, the lookup table is used to find a match for the return value type

The change that I did - I added another yacc grammar and created a "File Crawler" which scans files for include statements based on your current file and then passing this list of the files found to codelite_indexer for parsing.
the parsing results are then stored in the database for future use (along with timestamp which indicates when they were last parsed, so they will be skipped next time, unless they were modified)

is it possible to incorporate the new parser mechanism in CodeBlocks's CC plugin? thanks.

It is possible, but it needs an effort (obviously) - the parsing code + the supporting mechanism are written in a single library which can be incorporated into any application.
If you need a start points, let me know

Eran

[ollydbg]

t seems you have removed the "ctags" code from the CodeLite project. So all the parsing is done by your own parser?
Am I right?

Nope. codelite still uses ctags (codelite_indexer - a derived version of ctags (fixed parsing issues), using named-pipes/unix domain sockets to communicate with codelite IDE) to build an initial lookup-table.

The actual parsing of statements/expressions is done by the yacc grammar + custom code.

so if a user types this:

Code: Select all

wxString str;
str.AfterFirst().

the parsing is done in this manner:
1) resolve str - this is done by the yacc grammar to locate local variables
2) once str is resolved into wxString, codelite uses the lookup-table to locate all members/methods (including inheritance, etc.)
3) If a match is found from the lookup table to AfterFirst() - codelite analyzes the return code (in our example: wxString) - again, the lookup table is used to find a match for the return value type

Thanks for the explanation for the codecompletion algorithm, that's the quite the same as in CodeBlocks' CC, I have wrote these method in 5.3 Do an AI match. The most functionality are the same.

The change that I did - I added another yacc grammar and created a "File Crawler" which scans files for include statements based on your current file and then passing this list of the files found to codelite_indexer for parsing.
the parsing results are then stored in the database for future use (along with timestamp which indicates when they were last parsed, so they will be skipped next time, unless they were modified)

So, it seems the database generated can be used for "code completion", because only the Tokens in these files can be matched. Currently, Codeblocks doesn't have this file list (we can call it "include file dependency" ), so, all the matching and resolve mechanism are done in the global Token tree.

is it possible to incorporate the new parser mechanism in CodeBlocks's CC plugin? thanks.

It is possible, but it needs an effort (obviously) - the parsing code + the supporting mechanism are written in a single library which can be incorporated into any application.
If you need a start points, let me know
Eran

Currently, I think I don't have that ability to start a new CC plugin for CodeBlocks, it's too complex for me . , anyway, thank you very much for your reply and the contribution to the open-source world.