federicobond / solidity-extract-imports

A simple tool to extract imports from Solidity source files

solidity-extract-imports

A simple tool to extract imports from Solidity source files

Example

const extract = require('solidity-extract-imports')

extract('import "./ownable.sol";')
// => ['./ownable.sol']

Author

Federico Bond

License

MIT

solidity-extract-imports's Issues

Why you may prefer to use this library instead of a parser.

This is just an informational issue. Sorry if this is not the right place to do this, but this is valuable info.

The goal of this library was to be able to extract the imports from a solidity file without parsing. The original reason for doing this was that parsing is a slow process and it was wasteful to parse the entire file just to extract the imports.

That reason may or may not be enough for using this library, but I came up with another one, which IMO is more important. If you are planning to support different versions of solidity, your parser will fail when new syntax is added, while this library may still work. PR #5 is a good example of this happening.

Improve test coverage

Some ideas to improve test coverage:

• More tests with single quotes
• Escaped quotes inside strings (fixed in #2)