Rift

This is a Thrift IDL parser written in Ruby.

About

Rift parses Thrift IDL into a simple abstract syntax tree. It uses Rexical for lexing, and Racc for parsing. The Thrift IDL grammar is largely supported; constructs tagged as deprecated within the Thrift project are not permitted. Also, text from doc comments are not currently represented in the tree.

Why

Largely an excuse to play with Rexical and Racc, but you may find some practical uses for it.

Running

An executable, ./bin/rift is available, simply for testing purposes. It simply outputs a YAML representation of the syntax tree. For example, the following IDL:

struct Location {
  1: required double latitude;
  2: required double longitude;
}

Will result in a syntax tree similar to the following:

---
- !ruby/object:Rift::Nodes::Struct
  name: Location
  type: struct
  annotations:
  members:
  - !ruby/object:Rift::Nodes::Field
    identifier: !ruby/object:Rift::Nodes::FieldIdentifier
      auto_assigned: false
      value: 1
    name: latitude
    requiredness: required
    type: !ruby/object:Rift::Nodes::FieldType
      type: primitive
      value: !ruby/object:Rift::Nodes::BaseType
        annotations:
        type: double
    value:
    xsd_attributes:
    xsd_nillable: false
    xsd_optional: false
  - !ruby/object:Rift::Nodes::Field
    identifier: !ruby/object:Rift::Nodes::FieldIdentifier
      auto_assigned: false
      value: 2
    name: longitude
    requiredness: required
    type: !ruby/object:Rift::Nodes::FieldType
      type: primitive
      value: !ruby/object:Rift::Nodes::BaseType
        annotations:
        type: double
    value:
    xsd_attributes:
    xsd_nillable: false
    xsd_optional: false