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Parsing Protobuf Definitions with Tree-sitter
If you work with Protocol Buffers (protobuf), you can really save time, boredom, and headache by parsing your defin…
If you work with Protocol Buffers ( protobuf), you can really save time, boredom, and headache by parsing your definitions to build tools and generate code. In the process I realized how awesome the Tree-sitter parsing library is and that it probably was going to support extracting everything I wanted to get from our protobuf definitions. The library supports various methods of access to the parsed tree, but the one we’ll use here is a query expression that will extract only the data we care about.
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