Feature request: Parse swiftinterface files

[tjprescott]

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• Updated swift-ast to the latest version
• I am aware that the swift-ast -github-issue /path/to/file.swift might help me generate this file

Issue Summary

I am using swift-ast to parse Swift source code, and for that, it works great. However, I also need to be able to parse *.swiftinterface files, as that is what I can generate from Objective-C headers. Since I only care about the public interface, this is ideal. However, I can't parse these files with swift-ast because it exits with a DiagnosticStopper error.

I've had to try modifying the swiftinterface files to make them "look" like compilable Swift, for example, by adding empty brackets {} after function declarations. In this way I've been able to hackily use swift-ast for my purposes, but it's much too brittle to be effective.

I tried using SourceKitten directly to examine the structure, which was very promising as it works the same for swift and swiftinterface, but unfortunately it seems to be missing a bunch of stuff that I am currently able to get from swift-ast.

Reproduction Steps

Run swift-ast on any *.swiftinterface file

Expected Result

Code is parsed and I can navigate the tree, albeit with less detail.

Actual Behavior

DiagnosticStopped exit.

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[tjprescott]

This has not been addressed. I have a private fork where I made this work for my use case,