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Topiary
Topiary aims to be a uniform formatter for simple languages, as part of the Tree-sitter ecosystem. It is named after the art of clipping or trimming trees into fantastic shapes.
Topiary is designed for formatter authors and formatter users. Authors can create a formatter for a language without having to write their own formatting engine or even their own parser. Users benefit from uniform code style and, potentially, the convenience of using a single formatter tool, across multiple languages over their codebases, each with comparable styles applied.
Motivation
The style in which code is written has, historically, been mostly left
to personal choice. Of course, this is subjective by definition and has
led to many wasted hours reviewing formatting choices, rather than the
code itself. Prescribed style guides were an early solution to this,
spawning tools that lint a developer's formatting and ultimately leading
to automatic formatters. The latter were popularised by
gofmt
, whose developers had the insight that
"good enough" uniform formatting, imposed on a codebase, largely
resolves these problems.
Topiary follows this trend by aspiring to be a "universal formatter engine", which allows developers to not only automatically format their codebases with a uniform style, but to define that style for new languages using a simple DSL. This allows for the fast development of formatters, providing a Tree-sitter grammar is defined for that language.
Design Principles
Topiary has been created with the following goals in mind:
-
Use Tree-sitter for parsing, to avoid writing yet another grammar for a formatter.
-
Expect idempotency. That is, formatting of already-formatted code doesn't change anything.
-
For bundled formatting styles to meet the following constraints:
-
Be compatible with attested formatting styles used for that language in the wild.
-
Be faithful to the author's intent: if code has been written such that it spans multiple lines, that decision is preserved.
-
Minimise changes between commits such that diffs focus mainly on the code that's changed, rather than superficial artefacts. That is, a change on one line won't influence others, while the formatting won't force you to make later, cosmetic changes when you modify your code.
-
Be well-tested and robust, so that the formatter can be trusted in large projects.
-
-
For end users -- i.e., not formatting style authors -- the formatter should:
-
Prescribe a formatting style that, while customisable, is uniform and "good enough" for their codebase.
-
Run efficiently.
-
Afford simple integration with other developer tools, such as editors and language servers.
-
Language Support
The formatting styles for these languages come in two levels of maturity: supported and experimental.
Supported
These formatting styles cover their target language and fulfil Topiary's
stated design goals. They are exposed, in Topiary, through the
--language
command line flag, or language detection (based on file
extension).
Contributed
These languages' formatting styles have been generously provided by external contributors. They are built in, by default, so are exposed in the same way as supported languages.
- CSS by @lavigneer
Experimental
These languages' formatting styles are subject to change and/or not yet
considered production-ready. They are not built by default and are
gated behind a feature flag (either experimental
, for all of them, or
by their individual name). Once included, they can be accessed in
Topiary in the usual way.
Getting Started
Installing
The project can be built and installed with Cargo from the repository directory:
cargo install --path topiary-cli
Topiary needs to find the language query files (.scm
) to function properly. By
default, topiary
looks for a languages
directory in the current working
directory.
This won't work if you are running Topiary from another directory than this
repository. In order to use Topiary without restriction, you must set the
environment variable TOPIARY_LANGUAGE_DIR
to point to the directory where
Topiary's language query files (.scm
) are located. By default, you should
set it to <local path of the topiary repository>/topiary-queries/queries
, for example:
export TOPIARY_LANGUAGE_DIR=/home/me/tools/topiary/topiary-queries/queries
topiary fmt ./projects/helloworld/hello.ml
TOPIARY_LANGUAGE_DIR
can alternatively be set at build time. Topiary will pick
the correspond path up and embed it into the topiary
binary. In that case, you
don't have to worry about making TOPIARY_LANGUAGE_DIR
available at run-time
anymore. When TOPIARY_LANGUAGE_DIR
has been set at build time and is set at
run-time as well, the run-time value takes precedence.
See CONTRIBUTING.md
for details on setting up a
development environment.
Setting up as pre-commit hook
Topiary integrates seamlessly with pre-commit-hooks.nix: add Topiary as input to your flake and, in pre-commit-hooks.nix's setup, use:
pre-commit-check = nix-pre-commit-hooks.run {
hooks = {
nixfmt.enable = true; ## keep your normal hooks
...
## Add the following:
topiary = topiary.lib.${system}.pre-commit-hook;
};
};
Usage
The Topiary CLI uses a number of subcommands to delineate functionality.
These can be listed with topiary --help
; each subcommand then has its
own, dedicated help text.
CLI app for Topiary, the universal code formatter.
Usage: topiary [OPTIONS] <COMMAND>
Commands:
format Format inputs
visualise Visualise the input's Tree-sitter parse tree
config Print the current configuration
prefetch Prefetch all languages in the configuration
completion Generate shell completion script
help Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s)
Options:
-C, --configuration <CONFIGURATION> Configuration file [env: TOPIARY_CONFIG_FILE]
-v, --verbose... Logging verbosity (increased per occurrence)
-h, --help Print help
-V, --version Print version
Format
Format inputs
Usage: topiary format [OPTIONS] <--language <LANGUAGE>|FILES>
Arguments:
[FILES]...
Input files and directories (omit to read from stdin)
Language detection and query selection is automatic, mapped from file extensions defined
in the Topiary configuration.
Options:
-t, --tolerate-parsing-errors
Consume as much as possible in the presence of parsing errors
-s, --skip-idempotence
Do not check that formatting twice gives the same output
-l, --language <LANGUAGE>
Topiary language identifier (for formatting stdin)
-q, --query <QUERY>
Topiary query file override (when formatting stdin)
-C, --configuration <CONFIGURATION>
Configuration file
[env: TOPIARY_CONFIG_FILE]
-v, --verbose...
Logging verbosity (increased per occurrence)
-h, --help
Print help (see a summary with '-h')
When formatting inputs from disk, language selection is detected from
the input files' extensions. To format standard input, you must specify
the --language
and, optionally, --query
arguments, omitting any
input files.
Note: fmt
is a recognised alias of the format
subcommand.
Visualise
Visualise the input's Tree-sitter parse tree
Usage: topiary visualise [OPTIONS] <--language <LANGUAGE>|FILE>
Arguments:
[FILE]
Input file (omit to read from stdin)
Language detection and query selection is automatic, mapped from file extensions defined
in the Topiary configuration.
Options:
-f, --format <FORMAT>
Visualisation format
[default: dot]
Possible values:
- dot: GraphViz DOT serialisation
- json: JSON serialisation
-l, --language <LANGUAGE>
Topiary language identifier (for formatting stdin)
-q, --query <QUERY>
Topiary query file override (when formatting stdin)
-C, --configuration <CONFIGURATION>
Configuration file
[env: TOPIARY_CONFIG_FILE]
-v, --verbose...
Logging verbosity (increased per occurrence)
-h, --help
Print help (see a summary with '-h')
When visualising inputs from disk, language selection is detected from
the input file's extension. To visualise standard input, you must
specify the --language
and, optionally, --query
arguments, omitting
the input file. The visualisation output is written to standard out.
Note: vis
, visualize
and view
are recognised aliases of the
visualise
subcommand.
Configuration
Print the current configuration
Usage: topiary config [OPTIONS]
Options:
-C, --configuration <CONFIGURATION> Configuration file [env: TOPIARY_CONFIG_FILE]
-v, --verbose... Logging verbosity (increased per occurrence)
-h, --help Print help
Note: cfg
is a recognised alias of the config
subcommand.
Shell Completion
Shell completion scripts for Topiary can be generated with the
completion
subcommand. The output of which can be sourced into your
shell session or profile, as required.
Generate shell completion script
Usage: topiary completion [OPTIONS] [SHELL]
Arguments:
[SHELL] Shell (omit to detect from the environment) [possible values: bash, elvish, fish,
powershell, zsh]
Options:
-C, --configuration <CONFIGURATION> Configuration file [env: TOPIARY_CONFIG_FILE]
-v, --verbose... Logging verbosity (increased per occurrence)
-h, --help Print help
For example, in Bash:
source <(topiary completion)
Prefetching
Topiary dynamically downloads, builds, and loads the tree-sitter grammars. In order to ensure offline availability or speed up startup time, the grammars can be prefetched and compiled.
Prefetch all languages in the configuration
Usage: topiary prefetch [OPTIONS]
Options:
-C, --configuration <CONFIGURATION> Configuration file [env: TOPIARY_CONFIG_FILE]
-v, --verbose... Logging verbosity (increased per occurrence)
-h, --help Print help
Logging
By default, the Topiary CLI will only output error messages. You can
increase the logging verbosity with a respective number of
-v
/--verbose
flags:
Verbosity Flag | Logging Level |
---|---|
None | Errors |
-v |
...and warnings |
-vv |
...and information |
-vvv |
...and debugging output |
-vvvv |
...and tracing output |
Exit Codes
The Topiary process will exit with a zero exit code upon successful formatting. Otherwise, the following exit codes are defined:
Reason | Code |
---|---|
CLI argument parsing error | 2 |
I/O error | 3 |
Topiary query error | 4 |
Source parsing error | 5 |
Language detection error | 6 |
Idempotency error | 7 |
Unspecified formatting error | 8 |
Multiple errors | 9 |
Unspecified error | 10 |
When given multiple inputs, Topiary will do its best to process them
all, even in the presence of errors. Should any errors occur, Topiary
will return a non-zero exit code. For more details on the nature of
these errors, run Topiary at the warn
logging level (with -v
).
Example
Once built, the program can be run like this:
echo '{"foo":"bar"}' | topiary fmt --language json
topiary
can also be built and run from source via either Cargo or Nix,
if you have those installed:
echo '{"foo":"bar"}' | cargo run -- fmt --language json
echo '{"foo":"bar"}' | nix run . -- fmt --language json
It will output the following formatted code:
{ "foo": "bar" }
Configuration
Topiary is configured using languages.ncl
files. The .ncl
extension relates
to Nickel, a configuration language created by
Tweag. There are up to four sources where Topiary checks for such a file.
Configuration Sources
At build time the languages.ncl in the root of
this repository is embedded into Topiary. This file is parsed at
runtime. The purpose of this languages.ncl
file is to provide sane
defaults for users of Topiary (both the library and the binary).
The next two are read by the Topiary binary at runtime and allow the user to configure Topiary to their needs. The first is intended to be user specific, and can thus be found in the configuration directory of the OS:
OS | Typical Configuration Path |
---|---|
Unix | /home/alice/.config/topiary/languages.ncl |
Windows | C:\Users\Alice\AppData\Roaming\Topiary\config\languages.ncl |
macOS | /Users/Alice/Library/Application Support/Topiary/languages.ncl |
This file is not automatically created by Topiary.
The next source is intended to be a project-specific settings file for
Topiary. When running Topiary in some directory, it will ascend the file
tree until it finds a .topiary
directory. It will then read any languages.ncl
file present in that directory.
Finally, an explicit configuration file may be specified using the
-C
/--configuration
command line argument (or the
TOPIARY_CONFIG_FILE
environment variable). This is intended for
driving Topiary under very specific use-cases.
The Topiary binary parses these sources in the following order.
- The builtin configuration file.
- The user configuration file in the OS's configuration directory.
- The project specific Topiary configuration.
- The explicit configuration file specified as a CLI argument.
Configuration Options
The configuration file contains a record of languages. For instance, the one for Nickel is defined as such:
nickel = {
extensions = ["ncl"],
},
The name
field is used by Topiary to associate the language entry with the
query file and Tree-sitter grammar. This value should be written in lowercase.
The list of extensions is mandatory for every language, but does not necessarily need to exist in every configuration file. It is sufficient if, for every language, there is a single configuration file that defines the list of extensions for that language.
A final optional field, called indent
, exists to define the indentation method
for that language. Topiary defaults to two spaces " "
if it cannot find the
indent field in any configuration file for a specific language.
Overriding
If one of the sources listed above attempts to define a language configuration already present in the builtin configuration, Topiary will display a Nickel error.
To understand why, one can read the Nickel documentation on Merging. The short answer is that a priority must be defined. The builtin configuration has everything defined with priority 0. Any priority above that will replace any other priority. For example, to override the entire Bash configuration, use the following Nickel file.
{
languages = {
bash | priority 1 = {
extensions = [ "sh" ],
indent = " ",
},
},
}
To override only the indentation, use the following Nickel file:
{
languages = {
bash = {
indent | priority 1 = " ",
},
},
}
Design
As long as there is a Tree-sitter grammar defined for a language, Tree-sitter can parse it and provide a concrete syntax tree (CST). Tree-sitter will also allow us to run queries against this tree. We can make use of that to define how a language should be formatted. Here's an example query:
[
(infix_operator)
"if"
":"
] @append_space
This will match any node that the grammar has identified to be an
infix_operator
, as well as any anonymous node containing if
or :
.
The match will be captured with the name @append_space
. Our formatter
runs through all matches and captures, and when we process any capture
called @append_space
, we will append a space after the matched node.
The formatter goes through the CST nodes and detects all that are
spanning more than one line. This is interpreted to be an indication
from the programmer who wrote the input that the node in question should
be formatted as multi-line. Any other nodes will be formatted as
single-line. Whenever a query match has inserted a softline, it will
be expanded to a newline if the node is multi-line, or to a space or
nothing if the node is single-line, depending on whether
@append_spaced_softline
or @append_empty_softline
was used.
Before rendering the output, the formatter will do a number of cleanup operations, such as reducing consecutive spaces and newlines to one, trimming spaces at end of lines and leading and trailing blanks lines, and ordering indenting and newline instructions consistently.
This means that you can for example prepend and append spaces to if
and true
, and we will still output if true
with just one space
between the words.
Supported capture instructions
This assumes you are already familiar with the Tree-sitter query language.
A note on anchors
The behaviour of "anchors" can be counterintuitive. Consider, for instance, the following query:
(
(list_entry) @append_space
.
)
One might assume that this query only matches the final element in the list but
this is not true. Since we did not explicitly march a parent node, the engine
will match on every list_entry
. After all, the when looking only at the nodes
in the query, the list_entry
is indeed the last node.
To resolve this issue, match explicitly on the parent node:
(list
(list_entry) @append_space
.
)
Or even implicitly:
(_
(list_entry) @append_space
.
)
Note that a capture is put after the node it is associated with. If you want to put a space in front of a node, you do it like this:
(infix_operator) @prepend_space
This, on the other hand, will not work:
@append_space (infix_operator)
@allow_blank_line_before
The matched nodes will be allowed to have a blank line before them, if specified in the input. For any other nodes, blank lines will be removed.
Example
; Allow comments and type definitions to have a blank line above them
[
(comment)
(type_definition)
] @allow_blank_line_before
@append_delimiter
/ @prepend_delimiter
The matched nodes will have a delimiter appended to them. The delimiter
must be specified using the predicate #delimiter!
.
Example
; Put a semicolon delimiter after field declarations, unless they already have
; one, in which case we do nothing.
(
(field_declaration) @append_delimiter
.
";"* @do_nothing
(#delimiter! ";")
)
If there is already a semicolon, the @do_nothing
instruction will be
activated and prevent the other instructions in the query (the
@append_delimiter
, here) from applying. Otherwise, the ";"*
captures
nothing and in this case the associated instruction (@do_nothing
) does
not activate.
Note that @append_delimiter
is the same as @append_space
when the
delimiter is set to " "
(i.e., a space).
@append_multiline_delimiter
/ @prepend_multiline_delimiter
The matched nodes will have a multi-line-only delimiter appended to
them. It will be printed only in multi-line nodes, and omitted in
single-line nodes. The delimiter must be specified using the predicate
#delimiter!
.
Example
; Add a semicolon at the end of lists only if they are multi-line, to avoid [1; 2; 3;].
(list_expression
(#delimiter! ";")
(_) @append_multiline_delimiter
.
";"? @do_nothing
.
"]"
.
)
If there is already a semicolon, the @do_nothing
instruction will be
activated and prevent the other instructions in the query (the
@append_multiline_delimiter
, here) from applying. Likewise, if the
node is single-line, the delimiter will not be appended either.
@append_empty_softline
/ @prepend_empty_softline
The matched nodes will have an empty softline appended or prepended to them. This will be expanded to a newline for multi-line nodes and to nothing for single-line nodes.
Example
; Put an empty softline before dots, so that in multi-line constructs we start
; new lines for each dot.
(_
"." @prepend_empty_softline
)
@append_hardline
/ @prepend_hardline
The matched nodes will have a newline appended or prepended to them.
Example
; Consecutive definitions must be separated by line breaks
(
(value_definition) @append_hardline
.
(value_definition)
)
@append_indent_start
/ @prepend_indent_start
The matched nodes will trigger indentation before or after them. This will only apply to lines following, until an indentation end is signalled. If indentation is started and ended on the same line, nothing will happen. This is useful, because we get the correct behaviour whether a node is formatted as single-line or multi-line. It is important that all indentation starts and ends are balanced.
Example
; Start an indented block after these
[
"begin"
"else"
"then"
"{"
] @append_indent_start
@append_indent_end
/ @prepend_indent_end
The matched nodes will trigger that indentation ends before or after them.
Example
; End the indented block before these
[
"end"
"}"
] @prepend_indent_end
; End the indented block after these
[
(else_clause)
(then_clause)
] @append_indent_end
@append_input_softline
/ @prepend_input_softline
The matched nodes will have an input softline appended or prepended to them. An input softline is a newline if the node has a newline in front of it in the input document, otherwise it is a space.
Example
; Input softlines before and after all comments. This means that the input
; decides if a comment should have line breaks before or after. But don't put a
; softline directly in front of commas or semicolons.
(comment) @prepend_input_softline
(
(comment) @append_input_softline
.
[ "," ";" ]* @do_nothing
)
@append_space
/ @prepend_space
The matched nodes will have a space appended or prepended to them. Note
that this is the same as @append_delimiter
/ @prepend_delimiter
,
with space as delimiter.
Example
[
(infix_operator)
"if"
":"
] @append_space
@append_antispace
/ @prepend_antispace
It is often the case that tokens need to be juxtaposed with spaces,
except in a few isolated contexts. Rather than writing complicated rules
that enumerate every exception, an "antispace" can be inserted with
@append_antispace
/ @prepend_antispace
; this will destroy any spaces
(not newlines) from that node, including those added by other formatting
rules.
Example
[
","
";"
":"
"."
] @prepend_antispace
@append_spaced_softline
/ @prepend_spaced_softline
The matched nodes will have a spaced softline appended or prepended to them. This will be expanded to a newline for multi-line nodes and to a space for single-line nodes.
Example
; Append spaced softlines, unless there is a comment following.
(
[
"begin"
"else"
"then"
"->"
"{"
";"
] @append_spaced_softline
.
(comment)* @do_nothing
)
@delete
Remove the matched node from the output.
Example
; Move semicolon after comments.
(
";" @delete
.
(comment)+ @append_delimiter
(#delimiter! ";")
)
@do_nothing
If any of the captures in a query match are @do_nothing
, then the
match will be ignored.
Example
; Put a semicolon delimiter after field declarations, unless they already have
; one, in which case we do nothing.
(
(field_declaration) @append_delimiter
.
";"* @do_nothing
(#delimiter! ";")
)
@multi_line_indent_all
To be used on comments or other leaf nodes, to indicate that we should indent all its lines, not just the first.
Example
(#language! ocaml)
(comment) @multi_line_indent_all
@single_line_no_indent
The matched node will be printed alone, on a single line, with no indentation.
Example
(#language! ocaml)
; line number directives must be alone on their line, and can't be indented
(line_number_directive) @single_line_no_indent
Understanding the different newline captures
Type | Single-Line Context | Multi-Line Context |
---|---|---|
Hardline | Newline | Newline |
Empty Softline | Nothing | Newline |
Spaced Softline | Space | Newline |
Input Softline | Input-Dependent | Input-Dependent |
"Input softlines" are rendered as newlines whenever the targeted node follows a newline in the input. Otherwise, they are rendered as spaces.
Example
Consider the following JSON, which has been hand-formatted to exhibit every context under which the different newline capture names operate:
{
"single-line": [1, 2, 3, 4],
"multi-line": [
1, 2,
3
, 4
]
}
We'll apply a simplified set of JSON format queries that:
- Opens (and closes) an indented block for objects;
- Each key-value pair gets its own line, with the value split onto a second;
- Applies the different newline capture name on array delimiters.
That is, iterating over each @NEWLINE
type, we apply the following:
(#language! json)
(object . "{" @append_hardline @append_indent_start)
(object "}" @prepend_hardline @prepend_indent_end .)
(object (pair) @prepend_hardline)
(pair . _ ":" @append_hardline)
(array "," @NEWLINE)
The first two formatting rules are just for clarity's sake. The last rule is what's important; the results of which are demonstrated below:
@append_hardline
{
"single-line":
[1,
2,
3,
4],
"multi-line":
[1,
2,
3,
4]
}
@prepend_hardline
{
"single-line":
[1
,2
,3
,4],
"multi-line":
[1
,2
,3
,4]
}
@append_empty_softline
{
"single-line":
[1,2,3,4],
"multi-line":
[1,
2,
3,
4]
}
@prepend_empty_softline
{
"single-line":
[1,2,3,4],
"multi-line":
[1
,2
,3
,4]
}
@append_spaced_softline
{
"single-line":
[1, 2, 3, 4],
"multi-line":
[1,
2,
3,
4]
}
@prepend_spaced_softline
{
"single-line":
[1 ,2 ,3 ,4],
"multi-line":
[1
,2
,3
,4]
}
@append_input_softline
{
"single-line":
[1, 2, 3, 4],
"multi-line":
[1, 2,
3, 4]
}
@prepend_input_softline
{
"single-line":
[1 ,2 ,3 ,4],
"multi-line":
[1 ,2 ,3
,4]
}
Custom scopes and softlines
So far, we've expanded softlines into line breaks depending on whether the CST node they are associated with is multi-line. Sometimes, CST nodes define scopes that are either too big or too small for our needs. For instance, consider this piece of OCaml code:
(1,2,
3)
Its CST is the following:
{Node parenthesized_expression (0, 0) - (1, 2)} - Named: true
{Node ( (0, 0) - (0, 1)} - Named: false
{Node product_expression (0, 1) - (1, 1)} - Named: true
{Node product_expression (0, 1) - (0, 4)} - Named: true
{Node number (0, 1) - (0, 2)} - Named: true
{Node , (0, 2) - (0, 3)} - Named: false
{Node number (0, 3) - (0, 4)} - Named: true
{Node , (0, 4) - (0, 5)} - Named: false
{Node number (1, 0) - (1, 1)} - Named: true
{Node ) (1, 1) - (1, 2)} - Named: false
We would want to add a line break after the first comma, but because the
CST structure is nested, the node containing this comma
(product_expression (0, 1) - (0, 4)
) is not multi-line Only the
top-level node product_expression (0, 1) - (1, 1)
is multi-line.
To solve this issue, we introduce user-defined scopes and softlines.
@prepend_begin_scope
/ @append_begin_scope
/ @prepend_end_scope
/ @append_end_scope
These tags are used to define custom scopes. In conjunction with the #scope_id!
predicate, they define scopes that can span multiple CST nodes, or only part
of one. For instance, this scope matches anything between parenthesis in a
parenthesized_expression
:
(parenthesized_expression
"(" @append_begin_scope
")" @prepend_end_scope
(#scope_id! "tuple")
)
Scoped softlines
We have four predicates that insert softlines in custom scopes, in
conjunction with the #scope_id!
predicate:
@prepend_empty_scoped_softline
@prepend_spaced_scoped_softline
@append_empty_scoped_softline
@append_spaced_scoped_softline
When one of these scoped softlines is used, their behaviour depends on
the innermost encompassing scope with the corresponding scope_id
. If
that scope is multi-line, the softline expands into a line break. In any
other regard, they behave as their non-scoped
counterparts.
Example
This Tree-sitter query:
(#language! ocaml)
(parenthesized_expression
"(" @begin_scope @append_empty_softline @append_indent_start
")" @end_scope @prepend_empty_softline @prepend_indent_end
(#scope_id! "tuple")
)
(product_expression
"," @append_spaced_scoped_softline
(#scope_id! "tuple")
)
...formats this piece of code:
(1,2,
3)
...as:
(
1,
2,
3
)
...while the single-lined (1, 2, 3)
is kept as is.
If we used @append_spaced_softline
rather than
@append_spaced_scoped_softline
, the 1,
would be followed by a space rather
than a newline, because it's inside a single-line product_expression
.
Testing context with predicates
Sometimes, similarly to what happens with softlines, we want a query to match only if the context is single-line, or multi-line. Topiary has several predicates that achieve this result.
#single_line_only!
/ #multi_line_only!
These predicates allow the query to trigger only if the matched nodes are in a single-line (resp. multi-line) context.
Example
; Allow (and enforce) the optional "|" before the first match case
; in OCaml if and only if the context is multi-line
(
"with"
.
"|" @delete
.
(match_case)
(#single_line_only!)
)
(
"with"
.
"|"? @do_nothing
.
(match_case) @prepend_delimiter
(#delimiter! "| ")
(#multi_line_only!)
)
#single_line_scope_only!
/ #multi_line_scope_only!
These predicates allow the query to trigger only if the associated custom scope containing the matched nodes are is single-line (resp. multi-line).
Example
; Allow (and enforce) the optional "|" before the first match case
; in function expressions in OCaml if and only if the scope is multi-line
(function_expression
(match_case)? @do_nothing
.
"|" @delete
.
(match_case)
(#single_line_scope_only! "function_definition")
)
(function_expression
"|"? @do_nothing
.
(match_case) @prepend_delimiter
(#multi_line_scope_only! "function_definition")
(#delimiter! "| ") ; sic
)
@prepend_begin_measuring_scope
/ @append_begin_measuring_scope
/ @prepend_end_measuring_scope
/ @append_end_measuring_scope
Sometimes, custom scopes are not enough: we may want to format a node depending on the multi-line-ness of a piece of code that does not include the node in question. For instance, consider this function application in OCaml:
foo bar (fun x -> qux)
We may also want to format it as any of the following two, depending on the actual length of foo
, bar
, and qux
:
foo bar (fun x ->
qux
)
foo
bar
(fun x ->
qux
)
Consider the indentation of (fun x -> qux)
: if foo bar
is single-line, we don't want to indent it. But if foo bar
is multi-line, we do want to indent it.
Because custom scopes can only impact the behaviour of nodes inside the scope, we can't use them to solve this issue. This is why we need measuring_scope
.
Measuring scopes are opened/closed with a similar syntax as "regular" custom scopes, with any of the following tags, in conjunction with the #scope_id!
predicate:
@prepend_begin_measuring_scope
@append_begin_measuring_scope
@prepend_end_measuring_scope
@prepend_begin_measuring_scope
Measuring scopes behave as follows:
- A measuring scope must always be contained in a regular custom scope with the same
#scope_id!
. There can't be two measuring scopes with the same#scope_id!
inside the same regular custom scope. - If a regular custom scope contains a measuring scope, then all tags contained in the regular scope that depend on its multi-line-ness will instead depend on the multi-line-ness of the measuring scope (hence the name: the inner, measuring scope measures the multi-line-ness of the outer, regular scope).
Example
The example below solves the problem of indenting function application in OCaml stated above, using measuring scopes.
(application_expression
.
(_) @append_indent_start @prepend_begin_scope @prepend_begin_measuring_scope
(#scope_id! "function_application")
(_) @append_end_scope
.
)
; The end of the measuring scope depends on the last argument: if it's a function,
; end it before the function, otherwise end it after the last argument. In that case,
; it's the same as the regular scope.
(application_expression
(#scope_id! "function_application")
(_
[
(fun_expression)
(function_expression)
]? @do_nothing
) @append_end_measuring_scope
.
)
(application_expression
(#scope_id! "function_application")
(_
[
(fun_expression)
(function_expression)
] @prepend_end_measuring_scope
)
.
)
; If the measuring scope is single-line, end indentation _before_ the last node.
; Otherwise, end the indentation after the last node.
(application_expression
(#multi_line_scope_only! "function_application")
(_) @append_indent_end
.
)
(application_expression
(#single_line_scope_only! "function_application")
(_) @prepend_indent_end
.
)
#query_name!
When the logging verbosity is set to -vv
or higher, Topiary outputs information about which queries are matched, for instance:
[2024-10-08T15:48:13Z INFO topiary_core::tree_sitter] Processing match: LocalQueryMatch { pattern_index: 17, captures: [ {Node "," (1,3) - (1,4)} ] } at location (286,1)
The predicate #query_name!
takes a string argument, is optional, and can be added to any query.
It will modify the log line to display its argument.
Example
Considering the log line above, and let us assume that the query at location (286,1)
is:
(
"," @append_space
.
(_)
)
If we add a query_name
predicate:
(
(#query_name! "comma spacing")
"," @append_space
.
(_)
)
Then the log line will become:
[2024-10-08T15:48:13Z INFO topiary_core::tree_sitter] Processing match of query "comma spacing": LocalQueryMatch { pattern_index: 17, captures: [ {Node "," (1,3) - (1,4)} ] } at location (286,1)
Suggested workflow
In order to work productively on query files, the following is one suggested way to work:
-
Add a sample file to
topiary-cli/tests/samples/input
. -
Copy the same file to
topiary-cli/tests/samples/expected
, and make any changes to how you want the output to be formatted. -
If this is a new language, add its Tree-sitter grammar, extend
crate::language::Language
and process it everywhere, then make a mostly empty query file with just the(#language!)
configuration. -
Run:
RUST_LOG=debug \ cargo test -p topiary-cli \ input_output_tester \ -- --nocapture
Provided it works, it should output a lot of log messages. Copy that output to a text editor. You are particularly interested in the CST output that starts with a line like this:
CST node: {Node compilation_unit (0, 0) - (5942, 0)} - Named: true
.💡 As an alternative to using the debugging output, the
vis
visualisation subcommand line option exists to output the Tree-sitter syntax tree in a variety of formats. -
The test run will output all the differences between the actual output and the expected output, e.g. missing spaces between tokens. Pick a difference you would like to fix, and find the line number and column in the input file.
💡 Keep in mind that the CST output uses 0-based line and column numbers, so if your editor reports line 40, column 37, you probably want line 39, column 36.
-
In the CST debug or visualisation output, find the nodes in this region, such as the following:
[DEBUG atom_collection] CST node: {Node constructed_type (39, 15) - (39, 42)} - Named: true [DEBUG atom_collection] CST node: {Node type_constructor_path (39, 15) - (39, 35)} - Named: true [DEBUG atom_collection] CST node: {Node type_constructor (39, 15) - (39, 35)} - Named: true [DEBUG atom_collection] CST node: {Node type_constructor_path (39, 36) - (39, 42)} - Named: true [DEBUG atom_collection] CST node: {Node type_constructor (39, 36) - (39, 42)} - Named: true
-
This may indicate that you would like spaces after all
type_constructor_path
nodes:(type_constructor_path) @append_space
Or, more likely, you just want spaces between pairs of them:
( (type_constructor_path) @append_space . (type_constructor_path) )
Or maybe you want spaces between all children of
constructed_type
:(constructed_type (_) @append_space . (_) )
-
Run
cargo test
again, to see if the output is better now, and then return to step 5.
Syntax Tree Visualisation
To support the development of formatting queries, the Tree-sitter syntax
tree for a given input can be produced using the --visualise
CLI
option.
This currently supports JSON output, covering the same information as the debugging output, as well as GraphViz DOT output, which is useful for generating syntax diagrams. (Note that the text position serialisation in the visualisation output is 1-based, unlike the debugging output's 0-based position.)
Terminal-Based Playground
Nix users may also find the playground.sh
script to be helpful in
aiding the interactive development of query files. When run in a
terminal, it will format the given source input with the requested query
file, updating the output on any inotify event against those files.
Usage: ${PROGNAME} LANGUAGE [QUERY_FILE] [INPUT_SOURCE]
LANGUAGE can be one of the supported languages (e.g., "ocaml", "rust",
etc.). The packaged formatting queries for this language can be
overridden by specifying a QUERY_FILE.
The INPUT_SOURCE is optional. If not specified, it defaults to trying
to find the bundled integration test input file for the given language.
For example, the playground can be run in a tmux pane, with your editor of choice open in another.
Related Tools
Tree-Sitter Specific
- Syntax Tree Playground: An interactive, online playground for experimenting with Tree-sitter and its query language.
- Neovim Treesitter Playground: A Tree-sitter playground plugin for Neovim.
- Difftastic: A tool that utilises Tree-sitter to perform syntactic diffing.
Meta and Multi-Language Formatters
- format-all: A formatter orchestrator for Emacs.
- null-ls.nvim: An LSP framework for Neovim that facilitates formatter orchestration.
- prettier: A formatter with support for multiple (web-development related) languages.
- treefmt: A general formatter orchestrator, which unifies formatters under a common interface.
Related Formatters
- gofmt: The de facto standard formatter for Go, and major source of inspiration for the style of our formatters.
- ocamlformat: A formatter for OCaml.
- ocp-indent: A tool to indent OCaml code.
- Ormolu: Our formatter for Haskell, which follows similar design principles as Topiary.
- rustfmt: The de facto standard formatter for Rust.
- shfmt: A parser, formatter and interpreter for Bash et al.
Dependencies
~41–56MB
~1M SLoC