Is it possible to get parsed emmylua "object model" as lua table?

[lua-rocks]

Hello, @sumneko. First of all I want to say that I admire your work, I like it very much!

Your tool is almost perfect and the only thing I miss is the local documentation generator. Hints in code are cool, but sometimes I want to look at my project "from above" to clearly see the API and the hierarchy of all the modules I wrote.

Some time ago I started a project that does it! It parses the code and generates markdown documentation like this. The only problem is that it uses my own comment format and not emmylua. To be honest I like my format much more. It's simpler and more compact but that's not the point now :) Now I've set myself the task of adapting my documentation generator to emmylua. I want to write additional parser.

And before I start working on the emmylua parser, I'd like to know, maybe is there's a way to just get the parsed project model as lua table directly from your server? It would save me a lot of time. Thank you!

[sumneko]

You may use the following plugin, learn plugin here: https://github.com/sumneko/lua-language-server/wiki/Plugin

local files = require 'files'
local util  = require 'utility'
local furi  = require 'file-uri'
local fs    = require 'bee.filesystem'

local function isEnableKey(k)
    if type(k) ~= 'string' then
        return true
    end
    if k == 'parent'
    or k == 'typeGeneric'
    or k == 'fields'
    or k:find '_'
    or k:find 'Cache'
    or k:find 'bind' then
        return false
    end
    return true
end

local function copyData(t)
    local nt = {}
    for k, v in pairs(t) do
        if isEnableKey(k) then
            if type(v) == 'table' then
                nt[k] = copyData(v)
            else
                nt[k] = v
            end
        end
    end
    return nt
end

fs.create_directories(fs.path(LOGPATH) / 'LuaDoc')

files.watch(function (ev, uri)
    if ev == 'update' then
        local state = files.getState(uri)
        local docs = {}
        for i, doc in ipairs(state.ast.docs) do
            docs[i] = copyData(doc)
        end
        local filepath = furi.decode(uri)
        local filename = filepath:match '[^/\\]+$'
        util.saveFile(LOGPATH .. '/' .. filename, 'return ' .. util.dump(docs))
    end
end)