stack-graphs-python-bindings

Stack-Graphs Python bindings

Opinionated Python bindings for the tree-sitter-stack-graphs rust library.

It exposes a minimal, opinionated API to leverage the stack-graphs library for reference resolution in source code.

The rust bindings are built using PyO3 and maturin.

Note that this is a work in progress, and the API is subject to change. This project is not affiliated with GitHub.

Installation & Usage

pip install stack-graphs-python-bindings

Example

Given the following directory structure:

tests/js_sample
├── index.js
└── module.js

index.js:

import { foo } from "./module"
const baz = foo

module.js:

export const foo = "bar"

The following Python script:

import os
from stack_graphs_python import Indexer, Querier, Position, Language

db_path = os.path.abspath("./db.sqlite")
dir = os.path.abspath("./tests/js_sample")

# Index the directory (creates stack-graphs database)
indexer = Indexer(db_path, [Language.JavaScript])
indexer.index_all([dir])

# Instantiate a querier
querier = Querier(db_path)

# Query a reference at a given position (0-indexed line and column):
# foo in: const baz = foo
source_reference = Position(path=dir + "/index.js", line=2, column=12)
results = querier.definitions(source_reference)

for r in results:
    print(r)

Will output:

Position(path="[...]/tests/js_sample/index.js", line=0, column=9)
Position(path="[...]/tests/js_sample/module.js", line=0, column=13)

That translates to:

// index.js
import { foo } from "./module"
      // ^ line 0, column 9

// module.js
export const foo = "bar"
          // ^ line 0, column 13

Note: All the paths are absolute, and line and column numbers are 0-indexed (first line is 0, first column is 0).

Known stack-graphs / tree-sitter issues

• Typescript: tree-sitter-typescript fails when passing a generic type to a decorator: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-typescript/issues/283

Development

Ressources

https://pyo3.rs/v0.21.2/getting-started

Requirements

• Rust
• Python 3.12+

Setup

# Setup venv and install dev dependencies
make setup

Testing

make test

Manual testing

# build the package
make develop
# activate the venv
. venv/bin/activate

Roadmap

Before releasing 0.1.0, which I expect to be a first stable API, the following needs to be done:

• Add more testing, especially:
  • Test all supported languages (Java, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript)
  • Test failing cases, eg. files that cannot be indexed
• Add options to the classes:
  • Verbosity
  • Force for the Indexer
  • Fail on error for the Indexer, or continue indexing
• Handle the storage (database) in a dedicated class, and pass it to the Indexer and Querier -> this might not be necessary
• Add methods to query the indexing status (eg. which files have been indexed, which failed, etc.)
• Rely on the main branch of stack-graphs, and update the bindings accordingly
• Better error handling, return clear errors, test them and add them to the .pyi interface
• Lint and format the rust code
• CI/CD for the rust code
• Lint and format the python code
• Propper changelog, starting in 0.1.0

I'd also like to add the following features, after 0.1.0:

• Expose the exact, lower-level API of stack-graphs, for more flexibility, in a separate module (eg. stack_graphs_python.core)
• Benchmark performance