Re: Generating type specs programmatically

Hi Guilherme,

I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure specs are just syntactic sugar for
dialyzer (and devs) and are not actually included in the AST. Just sounds
like you may be looking for something that's not there.

Kind regards,
Leonard

On Sun, Dec 6, 2020, 14:13 Guilherme Andrade <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion!
>
> After a quick glance, Typer seems to be directly generating string
> representations of the specs - that is, not actually manipulating the AST
> of the modules it works on by inserting nodes that represent said specs.
>
> That's a shame, but it's what I will also do if I don't find a more
> elegant way to do it through `erl_syntax`.
>
> Oh well.
>
> On Sat, 5 Dec 2020 at 22:29, Fred Hebert <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> You might want to look at Typer, since it's whole purpose is to generate
>> type specs for code that you can directly put in code.
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 5, 2020 at 3:25 PM Guilherme Andrade <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello list,
>>>
>>> I've been working on a code-generating tool, leveraging `erl_syntax`[1]
>>> to build an AST containing arbitrary Erlang functions; I then use
>>> `erl_pp`[2] to generate the corresponding Erlang code and write the result
>>> onto a source code file.
>>>
>>> All is well so far, but now I want to generate type specs and function
>>> specs with which to annotate the generated code - and I can't for the life
>>> of me figure out how to do it within `erl_syntax`.
>>>
>>> All of the different attempts I've made end up either crashing within
>>> `erl_syntax` or `erl_pp`, or at best result in INVALID-FORM literals within
>>> the generated code.
>>>
>>> Would any of you be able to point me in the right direction?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>> [1]: http://erlang.org/doc/man/erl_syntax.html
>>> [2]: https://erlang.org/doc/man/erl_pp.html
>>>
>>> --
>>> Guilherme
>>>
>>
>
> --
> Guilherme
>