For unsupported languages, is there a way to use this implementation by feeding it the AST instead of the files?

[mahtab-nejati]

I am working on a project on CMake and would like to export the edit script of the .cmake files in my codebase. Is there a way I could use this package by feeding it the two ASTs of the code?

[jrfaller]

Hi!

I am not sure to understand what you want?

Cheers.

[mahtab-nejati]

Specifically, my question is how can I extend this tool to support diffing of other programming languages, such as CMake?

[mahtab-nejati]

Specifically, my question is how can I extend this tool to support diffing of other programming languages, such as CMake?

[jrfaller]

Ok that's much clearer thanks! Do you know a CMake parser?

[mahtab-nejati]

The CMake parser I am using is in python (PyPi page and GitHub repo. I was wondering if I could use the output AST and somehow plug it into the GumTree tool for diffing.

[jrfaller]

Hi!

In this case this might be fairly easy. You only need to build a xml convertor to gumtree external format. There is some explanation on how to do this here : #164

Cheers!

PS: see also this : https://github.com/uyha/tree-sitter-cmake it could be easier since we have a built-in support for tree-sitter parsers.

[mahtab-nejati]

Hi,

I did manage to make the tree-sitter-cmake work. I also went through issue #164 which you referred me to.

From what I understand, I need to:

1. Provide support for CMake by adding the file CMakeTreeSitterTreeGenerator.java to this directory
2. Use this repository and integrate tree-sitter-cmake into this.

Is that all?

[jrfaller]

Hi!

Yes it's all. Normally it's better to perform 2. before 1. this way I can refresh the docker image so that the right version of tree-sitter-parser is available for GumTree.

Cheers.