To ensure SwiftSyntax calls a compatible parser library, this patch sets
up a C API that returns a constant string calculated during compilation time to indicate
the version of syntax node declarations. The same hash will be calculated
in the SwiftSyntax (client) side as well by using the same algorithm.
During runtime, SwiftSyntax will verify its hash value is identical to the
result of calling swiftparse_node_declaration_hash before actual
parsing happens.
This patch only sets the API up. The actual implementation of the
hashing algorithm will come later.
Doing a "direct ParsedSyntaxRecorder::record[some syntax]" call from the parser is not a good idea due to possibility
of being in a backtracking context when the call is made. Replace them with "ParsedSyntaxRecorder::make[some syntax]"
which will implicitly check for backtracking and create a recorded or deferred node accordingly.
Instead of creating syntax nodes directly, modify the parser to invoke an abstract interface 'SyntaxParseActions' while it is parsing the source code.
This decouples the act of parsing from the act of forming a syntax tree representation.
'SyntaxTreeCreator' is an implementation of SyntaxParseActions that handles the logic of creating a syntax tree.
To enforce the layering separation of parsing and syntax tree creation, a static library swiftSyntaxParse is introduced to compose the two.
This decoupling is important for introducing a syntax parser library for SwiftSyntax to directly access parsing.
We cannot use unowned strings for token texts of incrementally parsed
syntax trees since the source buffer to which reused nodes refer will
have been freed for reused nodes. Always copying the token text whenever
OwnedString is passed is too expensive. A reference counted copy of the
string allows us to keep the token's string alive across incremental
parses while eliminating unnecessary copies.
This also fixes several issues where attribute arguments could not be
parsed as a TokenList since some of its arguments already had structure
and were not tokens
This patch adds a python function to syntax node gyb support called
"check_child_condition". Given a child's definition, this function
generate a C++ closure to check whether a given syntax node can satisfy
the condition of the child node. This function recursively generates code
for node choices too, therefore we don't need to hard code the
condition checking for node choices.
* Create Swift libSyntax API
This patch is an initial implementation of the Swift libSyntax API. It
aims to provide all features of the C++ API but exposed to Swift.
It currently resides in SwiftExperimental and will likely exist in a
molten state for a while.
* Only build SwiftSyntax on macOS
* Generate libSyntax API
This patch removes the hand-rolled libSyntax API and replaces it with an
API that's entirely automatically generated. This means the API is
guaranteed to be internally stylistically and functionally consistent.
