UI5 Class Parser

Parser package for UI5 based projects

Primarely used by ui5plugin-linter package and Visual Studio Code SAPUI5 Extension

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Any support is highly appreciated!

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Summary

• Configuration
  • RC and package.json
  • Config interface
  • Config default values
• Parser instantiation logic
  • Additional Workspaces
  • Proxy Workspaces
  • Node projects
• TS vs JS
  • Initialization
  • Folder exclusions
• How to use

Configuration

RC and package.json

Configuration can be done in package.json or in any of rc file types:

• .ui5pluginrc
• .ui5pluginrc.json
• .ui5pluginrc.yaml
• .ui5pluginrc.yml
• .ui5pluginrc.js

For simplicity purposes all examples are written for package.json, but it works the same way for all file types.

Config interface

interface IUI5PackageConfigEntry {
	ui5?: IUI5ParserEntry;
}
interface IUI5ParserEntry {
	ui5parser?: IUI5ParserEntryFields;
}
interface IUI5ParserEntryFields {
	ui5version?: string;
	excludeFolderPatterns?: string[];
	dataSource?: string;
	rejectUnauthorized?: boolean;
	libsToLoad?: string[];
	additionalWorkspaces?: string[];
	nodeProjects?: string[];
	proxyWorkspaces?: string[];
}

Config default values

Default package.json or rc file config looks as follows:

{
	"ui5": {
		"ui5parser": {
			// UI5 Version for standard library metadata preload from ui5.sap.com
			"ui5version": "1.108.27",
			// Folder GLOB patterns which should be excluded from reading by parser
			"excludeFolderPatterns": ["**/resources/**", "**/dist/**", "**/node_modules/**"],
			// Source for standard library metadata preload
			"dataSource": "https://ui5.sap.com/",
			// For HTTP requests to dataSource
			"rejectUnauthorized": false,
			// List of libraries to be loaded
			"libsToLoad": [
				"sap.m",
				"sap.ui.comp",
				"sap.f",
				"sap.ui.core",
				"sap.ui.commons",
				"sap.ui.export",
				"sap.ui.layout",
				"sap.ui.support",
				"sap.ui.table",
				"sap.ui.unified",
				"sap.ushell",
				"sap.tnt",
				"sap.suite.ui.microchart"
			],
			//Handy to add additional workspace paths if e.g. library is outside of CWD. See "Additional workspaces" section for more details
			"additionalWorkspaces": ["../MyLibrary"],
			//option to tell explicitly where UI5 projects are relative to CWD, useful for CAP projects. See "Proxy workspaces" section for more details
			"proxyWorkspaces": ["./MyFEApp1", "./MyFEApp2"],
			// This configuration entry tries to parse UI5 project from node_modules folder. Requires "-dbg.js" files and "manifest.json" to be there.
			"nodeProjects": ["my-node-library"]
		}
	}
}

These are default values, which can be overriden.

In case of libsToLoad and excludeFolderPatterns all additional values which are added in package.json will be added to the default values, not rewritten.

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Parser instantiation logic

Let's introduce two terms which will be used here:

• CWD - current working directory, or the root folder of the project which is opened in the VSCode.
• Workspace - UI5 workspace, or the folder which has manifest.json in it.

--- CWD ---
├── webapp
--- Workspace 1 ---
│   ├── Component.js
│   └── manifest.json
├── library
--- Workspace 2 ---
│   ├── library.js
│   └── manifest.json
└── package.json

The basic way for instantiating the parser looks as follows:

• Read package.json in CWD and use it as a configuration source
• Read all Workspaces and create UI5 Parser instance for it, using package.json as configuration source from previous step
• If CWD has tsconfig.json and any .ts files, it is considered to be TS project. Otherwise it's JS project.

Important! Take in mind that nested projects are not supported anymore, which means that there can be no folders with such structure:

├── webapp
│   ├── library
│   │   ├── library.js
│   │   └── manifest.json
│   ├── Component.js
│   └── manifest.json

The structure which will work as expected:

├── library
│   ├── library.js
│   └── manifest.json
├── webapp
│   ├── Component.js
│   └── manifest.json

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Additional Workspaces

If there is a e.g. library outside of the CWD, checkout additionalWorkspaces config for ui5parser. Example:

├── MyApp (CWD)
│   │   ├── webapp
│   │   │   ├── manifest.json
│   │   │   └── Component.js
│   └── package.json
├── MyLibrary (Outside of CWD)
│   │   ├── src
│   │   │   ├── manifest.json
│   │   │   └── library.js
│   └── package.json
└── tsconfig.json

To make this work, corresponding entry in package.json should be added

"ui5": {
   "ui5parser": {
      "additionalWorkspaces" : ["../MyLibrary"]
   }
}

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Proxy Workspaces

There are cases when project is mixed, meaning that one folder may contain many different projects inside, non-ui5 as well. Most frequent case would be CAP project with both backend and frontend in one folder.

Example:

├── frontend
│   ├── webapp
│   │   └── manifest.json
│   ├── package.json (<- this file will be used as configuration source after proxyWorkspaces is configured)
│   └── tsconfig.json
├── backend
│   ├── Whatever.js
│   └── package.json
├── package.json (<- proxyWorkspaces should be configured here)
└── tsconfig.json

To make the parser work only for frontend folder, corresponding entry in package.json should be added

"ui5": {
   "ui5parser": {
      "proxyWorkspaces" : ["./frontend"]
   }
}

What happens is that CWD is replaced with the new path from proxyWorkspaces, so at instantiation stage package.json and tsconfig.json from frontend folder will be used instead of root folder.

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Node projects

There are cases when custom projects (e.g. libraries) installed via npm are used, for that purpose nodeProjects configuration entry was created. Example:

npm install my-custom-library

package.json:

"ui5": {
   "ui5parser": {
		"nodeProjects": ["my-custom-library"]
   }
}

Important! In order to get the project parsed properly, it should have -dbg.js files and manifest.json. Configuration will be inherited from main project (project in CWD). In other words, npm packages which were not built properly and have no manifest.json will not work.

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TS vs JS

Initialization

If tsconfig.json is found in the CWD and any .ts files are found in the workspace, parser considers that it's TS project.
tsconfig.json should be located in CWD.

Folder exclusions

For convenience purposes UI5TSParser ignores src-gen folder, because they contain transpiled JS/XML files, which can make the parser to think that source files are there. If build folder name is different, is should be added to excludeFolderPatterns in your package.json. If you are using older tooling with manual babel transpiler which generates webapp folder, it should be added to excludeFolderPatterns as well

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How to use

Initialization process reads the metadata of standard SAPUI5 classes and parses all projects in CWD (Current working directory), it's encapsulated into createInstances method. For getting parsers just call it.

const wsFolders = [new WorkspaceFolder("Absolute path to the workspace")];
const parsers = await ParserFactory.createInstances(wsFolders);

Necessary methods for getting information about the classes exists ParserPool class, which works with all parser instances. As an example, to get the parser for custom class, getParserForCustomClass can be used:

const parser = ParserPool.getParserForCustomClass("com.test.any.class");
const UIClass = parser.classFactory.getUIClass("com.test.any.class");

UIClass will have class metadata such as fields, methods, properties, aggregations, associations, events etc.

TS only! For performance reasons TS parser doesn't parse types right away. If you want to load all type info such as method return type, parameter types etc, please use UIClass.loadTypes()