pegjs-import

Import other PEG files into a PEG.js grammar.

Installation

npm install --save pegjs pegjs-import

Usage

pegjs-import provides a single function that replaces peg.buildParser:

  var pegimport = require('pegjs-import');

  var parser = pegimport.buildParser('path/to/grammar.peg', options);
  parser.parse('foo');

Instead of taking a string, it takes a filename.

Inside a PEG.js grammar, you can now make use of the @import directive, like so:

/* NOTE: this grammar won't work in stock PEG.js anymore! */

{
  this.notes = "Initializers work as you expect them to and are imported.";
}

@import "path/to/grammar"

start
  = grammar

When you @import another grammar, that grammar's topmost rule becomes accessible in the context of the current grammar under one of two possible rule names:

• A name you provide explicitly through the use of the optional "as" parameter
• The basename of the file, corrected to be a valid Javascript identifier (so if the file were called /foo/bar/my-grammar.peg, the rule name would be my_grammar).

Changes from stock PEG.js behavior

• You cannot supply options.allowedStartRules anymore. The only allowed start rule is always the first rule in the grammar.
• You cannot supply a grammar as a string, you must give a filename. There are libraries that provide virtual and in-memory filesystems if you want to work on grammars as strings.

Limitations

• pegjs-import is only tested on NodeJS, though the parsers work everywhere they usually do.
• Circular dependencies explicitly throw an exception. Don't use them.
• Please don't do funny things with rule names, pegjs-import will probably explode. I will not be held responsible for exploding grammars.

Changelog

0.2.6

• Fixed a bug in path comparison that broke Windows.

0.2.5

• parse-imports now handles /index.peg correctly.

0.2.4

• Resolve a glitch in external rule name resolution.

0.2.3

• Don't require "as" identifiers to have two characters in them

0.2.2

• Make sure we treat internal vs. external rule_refs correctly

0.2.1

• Fixed bug in options parsing.

0.2.0

• Changed syntax to more closely correspond to that of PEG.js.