osa1 / tree-sitter-parse

A tool like tree-sitter-cli that can load parsers compiled to shared libraries

tree-sitter-parse

This is a tool that works like tree-sitter-cli's parse command, except it loads the parser from a shared library (.so on Linux). This is helpful when testing your tree-sitter parser which can't be compiled with tree-sitter-cli, maybe because you are using a lexer implemented in another language or something like that.

Example

tree-sitter-parse accepts three arguments:

• Path to the shared library (.so on Linux) for the tree-sitter parser
• Name of the language defined in the tree-sitter parser, i.e. the string in name: '...' part in your grammar.js.
• Path to the file to parse.

For example, I'm working on a parser that uses a lexer implemented in another language. After building it to .so with something like:

$ clang-10 -I src src/parser.c -fPIC libmylexer.a -shared -o parser.so

I can use the .so file to parse a file using:

$ tree-sitter-parse <path_to_parser.so> mylang path_to_input

Parsing code is copied from tree-sitter-cli so the output should be similar to what tree-sitter parse generates.