Lots of missing keywords, can we automate the generation of the highlighter spec?

[nickanderson]

Your highlighter is a great start, but there are quite a few missing keywords.

In 3.6 we added a syntax map dump to cf-promises

  --syntax-description, -s value - Output a document describing the available syntax elements of CFEngine. Possible values: 'none', 'json'. Default is 'none'.

I started playing around with parsing that. Perhaps we could use it to automatically generate a more complete syntax highlighter.

Here is my experiment so far.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import json
from pprint import pprint

seperator="|"
json_data = open('syntaxmap.json');
data = json.load(json_data)


attributes = []
for promiseType in data['promiseTypes']:
    print promiseType
    for attribute in data['promiseTypes'][promiseType]['attributes']:
        attributes.append(attribute)
attributes=list(set(attributes))
attributes.sort()



#print data["functions"]
functions = []
for function in data['functions']:
    functions.append(function)
functions.sort()

cfengine_keywords = attributes + functions
cfengine_keywords.sort()

for each in cfengine_keywords:
    print each

[nickanderson]

I have opened this related feature request in CFEngine core

[astraverkhau]

Thanks Nick!