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8193 :: Fixing dependencies

• mantielero (orginal) [2021-07-04T10:41:38+02:00] view original

  Is there any tool that analyse a nim library and fix the required imports? I mean something that analyse the types defined by each file and the dependencies required by each file and perform the required imports with the information available.

  I have created bindings for a big library using c2nim and fixing everything manually is very time consuming.

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• Araq (orginal) [2021-07-06T11:53:56+02:00] view original

  It's not clear to me what you mean, the Nim compiler produces "unused import" messages but there is no tooling support for cleaning them up.

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• pointystick (orginal) [2021-07-06T12:25:39+02:00] view original

  It sounds like the 'Organise Imports' feature that Java IDEs provide, which:

  • Removes unused imports
  • Adds missing imports where there's only one possibility
  • Prompts the user with choices if there are multiple possibilities for a missing import
  • Sorts the imports alphabetically (I think I've seen this)
  • Groups or ungroup imports ("java.util.*" versus several several imports)

  It's a nice feature but like Araq says, I've not seen tooling support for it in Nim.

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• mantielero (orginal) [2021-07-06T19:06:30+02:00] view original

  Yeah. Something like that.

  And is there a easy way to extract what types are defined in a nim file?

  And the same for what procs and their arguments and results are defined in a nim file?

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• shirleyquirk (orginal) [2021-07-06T20:07:28+02:00] view original

  You can do a lot of static analysis of this kind with a macro. here is a snippet on rosettacode that could get you started if you felt like making some of that tooling

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